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PRESENTED BV 



MEMORANDA 

Regarding Members ok the 

Class of 1877 

BOWDOIN COLLEGE 

irri'H AX HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE COLLEGE 
FROM i8jj TO 1(^02 



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I should inform thee farther. 

The hour 's flow cowe ; 

The very minute bids thee ope thine ear ; 
Obey and he attentive. 

— Thk Tempest: i. 2 



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Class Report No. 4 
J u N 1: I , 1902 



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Author, 
15 N '07 



I am a wise fellow ; and, which is more, an officer. 

— Much Ado about Nothing: iv 2. 



Officers of the Class 



Prcsidcjii. 
GEORGE THOMAS LITTLE. 



Secrctarv and Treasurer. 
JOHN ELIPHAZ CHAPMAN. 



Executive Committee. 

Philip Greely Brown, 
Frank Hobart Hargraves, 
Addison Munroe Sherman, 
George Ladd Thompson. 



It gives )ne content already, and I trust it 
loill grow to a most prosperous perfection. 

— Measure for Measure: iii. i. 



The College 



Sketch of Bowcloin College, 
1877-1902. 

BY GEORGE THOMAS LITTLE, LITT. D. 



T^WENTY-FIVE years is a long period in the 
^ life of an individual. It is not a long period 
in the life of an endowed New England 
^ college that has closed a century of activity. 

The forces that led to the establishment and 
development of the one continue to act long after those 
that caused the other have ceased to be. The tradi- 
tions, the associations, the character of the college have 
grown up slowly and steadily, and they are persistent. 
No one will, however strong, can change them. No 
calamity, however great, can obliterate them. They 
can be modified, but only by introducing new factors 
similar to those which produced them. So numerous, 
so powerful, so permanent are the various influences 
which converge in one resultant, that the direction of 
this changes little from year to year. 

These commonplaces are a natural, if not a necessary, 
introduction to this so-called sketch of Bowdoin College 
from 1877 to 1902. For it is really a desultory account 
of the differences between the Alma Mater which the 
" optimi fortissimique " entered, and that opened to 
their children, " ter quaterque beati," — if sophomoric 
exaggeration is still allowable. Despite this constant 
citation of changes, the purpose, the customs, the inner 
life of the college are substantially the same. Neither 
IS the alumnus who regrets the abandonment of the 
class and faculty prayer-meetings, which were to him a 
means of spiritual growth, justified in the hasty con- 
clusion that the higher life has been forgotten in the 
material prosperity which is so evident; nor is another 

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lo Sketch of Bowdoin College, 1877- 1902. 

type of graduate, when he listens to encomiums on the 
high standards of honor and morality prevalent among 
under-graduates of to-day, and recalls his own youthful 
escapades, justified in feeling that he would be sadly 
lonesome were he again a sophomore. The channels 
are too deep to be changed. Through new men, new 
faces, and new surroundings the current of college 
life at Bowdoin flows on to-day as yesterday, giving the 
same help and joy to those in each succeeding genera- 
tion who really come in contact with it. 

It is harder to get into Bowdoin College to-day than 
thirty years ago. Reference is not made to the scien- 
tific department of our day, the bars to which were raised 
while we were in college, but to the admission require- 
ments in general. The boys who now present them- 
selves without Greek are not as numerous as in our 
day, and it is needless to cite the various equivalents 
accepted in place of three years' study of that language. 
Of all who enter, however, there is a new requirement 
in English, which, if honestly met, demands the amount 
of work represented by one recitation a week throughout 
the entire preparatory course. It consists of a general 
knowledge of the substance of Shakespeare's " Mer- 
chant of Venice," "Julius Csesar," and "Macbeth"; 
the Sir Roger de Coverley Papers in the " Specta- 
tor" ; Goldsmith's " Vicar of Wakefield " ; Coleridge's 
"Ancient Mariner"; Scott's " Ivanhoe " ; Carlyle's 
" Essay on Burns " ; Tennyson's " Princess " ; Lowell's 
"Vision of Sir Launfal " ; George Eliot's "Silas 
Marner"; Milton's " Lycidas," " Comus," " L' Al- 
legro," and "II Penseroso"; Burke's "Speech on 
Conciliation with America"; Macaulay's "Essays on 
Milton and Addison," with the ability to answer simple 
questions on the lives of these authors, and to write brief 
paragraphs on topics relating to the subject-matter, the 
form, and the structure of the works just mentioned. 



Sketch of Bowdoin College, 1877-1902. 11 

Three questions from a recent examination paper will 
illustrate what is desired. 

" What story does the Spectator tell in his account of 
Sir Roger and the Gipsies?" "What caused the 
Ancient Mariner to fall down in a ' swound," and while 
in that state what voices did he hear?" "What was 
the occasion of the writing of Lycidas, and how is the 
subject treated ? " 

The requirements in the ancient languages are stated 
in such different terms that one acquainted only with 
those of 1873 would hardly recognize them. They are, 
however, not materially different, with the important 
exception of the amount of work expected in sight read- 
ing and in Greek and Latin composition. This is far 
in excess of what was asked in our day, and demands 
a superior grasp of the language. The " Ancient and 
Modern Geography of 1873 " has been replaced by 
" Outlines of Roman and Greek History and Geog- 
raphy." Here, again, such questions as: "In the 
Hannibalic War, state the sources of strength and weak- 
ness on each side." " Describe the social and economic 
condition of Rome about 130 b. c, and the attempted 
remedy." "What was the Sicilian Expedition, why 
was it undertaken, what generals commanded it, what 
was its success, and what its effect upon Athens?" 
will remind my readers of examinations held during, 
rather than before, our freshman year. 

In the mathematical requirements, arithmetic has dis- 
appeared, but in place of the " first and third books of 
Davies' Legendre's " is found " Plane Geometry " as 
treated in ordinary text-books, and with this the demon- 
stration of what are called " simple original theorems." 
Of the originality of these theorems I cannot testify, but 
as an unfortunate ^a/fr-/27;///7/Vz5, occasionally called upon 
to aid in solving them, I must say that they do not appear 
simple. Of the advance in algebra, the phrase " binomial 



12 Sketch of Bowdoin College, 1877-1902. 

theorem for positive integral exponents " is a sufficient 
indication. Entrance examinations now occupy two 
da3^s, and are usually taken in successive years. Partial 
or preliminary, as well as hnal, examinations may he 
taken at the student's preparatory school, subject to a 
few necessary requirements as to time and formal 
notice. In this respect the path Bowdoinwards is in 
some measure easier than in our day. It should be 
noted, however, that Bowdoin, Harvard, and Yale are 
the only New England colleges that do not now receive 
men without examination on certificate from the prepar- 
atory school. 

In 1873 the system of elective studies in a college 
curriculum was a much debated theory. In 1902 the 
theory has become a fact. Then every freshman was 
required to pursue the same forty-seven term and half- 
term courses before he could receive the degree of A. B. 
There were also seven or eight half-term optional courses 
which could be taken, yet these did not excuse one from 
any required course. The work in rhetoric and physical 
culture was then as now required of all. To-day there 
are only eighteen term courses which ever}^ student is 
obliged to take To complete the quota of forty-eight 
courses necessary for a degree, he can select for him- 
self from eighty-seven different courses offered by the 
thirteen professors. He is permitted, moreover, if the 
hours of recitation do not conflict and his ability is equal 
to the task, to pursue five full-term courses at once, and 
thus either shorten his college course, or as is more 
usual, lighten the required work of a particular period. 
Since the four year requirement for the degree of M. D. 
has been adopted, seniors intending to be physicians 
are thus enabled to take certain studies in the Medical 
School of Maine during their last college year, and to 
complete their professional course within three years of 
their graduation. 



Sketch of Bowdoin College, 1877-1902. 13 

Room has been made for this marked expansion ot 
the latter part of the curriculum by diminishing the 
number of weekly recitations in a full course from five 
to four — in some cases to three — by regaining Satur- 
day forenoon for recitations, of which sixteen rather 
than tifteen now make a normal week's work, and by 
placing the required French and German in the fresh- 
man and sophomore years. 

Of the new studies with which the college course 
has been enriched, Encrlish literature is the most 
popular. Its six courses cover a period of two years, 
and are arranged in two groups, of which the first, in- 
cluding literature of the eighteenth century, the poetry 
of the nineteenth, and American literature, is open to 
both juniors and seniors. The present year it was 
elected b}- sixtv-seven men. The second group deals 
with the earlier periods of English literature and ex- 
tends through the three terms of senior year. Instruc- 
tion in these courses, though based upon text-books, is 
largely in the form of lectures and readings, to the rare 
excellence of which all who have listened to the senior 
member of the academic faculty can testify. 

Although the courses in history are numbered as 
nine, by reason of the three term division of the 
college year thev are essentially three, of which two on 
European history are given alternately ; the third, on 
American history e\ery year. These rank in popu- 
larity with tlie courses in chemistry, economics, geology, 
and philosophy, and are, like them, chosen by a majority 
in each class. 

With the increase of courses there has come a 
marked change in methods of instruction. It would 
surprise the worthy member of the hrst division in 
Latin, wlio blushed so deeply when Tutor Moore, re- 
ferring to certain textual variations, asked if he read 
panes, to learn that several of the best translations of 



14 Sketch of Bowdoin College, 1877-1902. 

Horace and of Homer are regularly reserved in the 
library for the use of the classes studying those authors. 
In the departments of history and economics especially, 
there is required an amount of collateral reading and 
an extended use of the library both unheard of and 
impracticable thirty years ago. This "laboratory" 
method sometimes calls upon a student to consult over a 
hundred volumes to obtain the matter desired for the 
special exercise assigned him, while the number of 
books reserved for the particular use of the classes 
pursuing these courses often rises into the thousands. 

The extension of the study of political economy over 
two years gives opportunity for formal instruction in 
practical questions of the day, such as the foundation of 
trusts, the development of manufactures, the consolida- 
tion of railroads. Under the leadership of the pro- 
fessors, student clubs are organized for the informal 
discussion of topics connected with the various depart- 
ments. The oldest of these, the Deutsche Verein, has 
held its monthly meetings for a series of years and has 
begun the collection of a departmental library, for which 
a room is to be assigned in the Hubbard Library. 

It is a standing complaint against all disciplinary 
studies pursued in college, that they are not as effective a 
means of culture as they should be. President Hyde, 
who is emphatically a man of ideas, has engrafted upon 
the Bowdoin curriculum a scheme of individual in- 
struction connected with that of the classroom, by which 
the ancient languages in particular are to be made less 
dead, if not thoroughly alive to the average student. 
The plan stated in his own language is as follows : 
" Supplementary to the work now done by professors, 
tutors are to do the kind of work the professors are 
compelled for the most part to leave undone. These 
tutors are" to be young men fresh from university studies 
who expect to become professors in due time. It is 



Sketch of Bowdoin College, 1 877-1902. 15 

their duty to meet each student individually for a half 
hour, at least as often as once a week, to review with 
him thoroughly and critically a specified portion of the 
work done in class during that period : to discover diffi- 
culties ; to remove misconceptions ; to correct wrong 
methods of study ; to point out errors and superficialities ; 
to insist on accuracy and thoroughness ; to stimulate in- 
terest ; to suggest lines of reading ; and by personal 
influence to bring the subject home to the student as a 
living reality." This scheme has been in operation five 
or six years, and its effect upon the tutors, at least, has 
been as expected ; they have become professors, or are 
well along on the highway to that goal. It is not easy 
to measure directly the influence of the system upon the 
undergraduates, yet there can be no doubt that more 
thorough work with greater interest in the subject is 
the result. 

To describe more fully a method of instruction, 
which, as far as the writer is informed, Bowdoin is the 
only college to attempt, I quote from a recent report of 
a gentleman who has successfully performed this work. 
" The general purpose of the individual work is to sup- 
plement the regular classroom exercises through the 
use of material and methods not adapted to large 
divisions. In practise this general purpose has involved 
the following ends : — 

"I. To discover and clear away the peculiar diffi- 
culties of each student. 

"2. To make more plain the practical value and the 
artistic interest of the classics. 

"3. To show the vital connection, in life and 
thought, between ancient and modern times. 

" 4. To give practise in English composition. 

"5. To insure the frequent use of the resources of 
the library. 

"The class is divided alphabetically into sections, 



i6 Sketch of Bowdoin College, 1877-1902. 

each containing" four men. With each section the 
instructor meets once a week for a half-hour conference. 
At first, oral and written translations are made by the 
students and minutely criticized b}' the instructor, to 
elucidate the finer points of syntax and style. Discus- 
sion and the free expression of personal opinion are 
encouraged. As the difhculties incident to the first 
attack upon the subject decrease, more attention is given 
to allusions in the text ; and topics upon various 
biographical, historical, social, and political subjects 
are assigned. Each man is given specific references to 
books upon the reserved list in the library. The results 
of investigation are embodied in short papers to be read 
and discussed at the conference and later handed to the 
instructor for further correction and criticism." 

Were certain members of '77 to renew their youth 
and return to Brunswick as undergraduates, the change 
that would most surprise them is the practical abandon- 
ment by the college faculty of the endeavor to govern 
the student body outside of the recitation rooms. The 
word "govern" is purposely chosen. Means are taken 
to influence and to direct, but none to control. No 
college now allows greater freedom of action to its 
students, nor is it possible to see how further increase 
could be made except by completeU' adopting the 
methods of the German university. This marked 
change in college discipline dates, in a large measure, 
from the introduction of a scheme of self-go\'ernment, 
and of a new method of ranking, each devised by Prof. 
Charles Henry Smith, now of Yale, but for fifteen 
years a most influential member of the Bowdoin Faculty. 
The S3'stem of self-government, consisting of a college 
jury acting in cooperation with the president, is in the 
line of similar plans tried at New England colleges, 
notably at Amherst, and was adopted at Bowdoin with 
the special hope of mitigating the e\'ils that resulted 



Sketch ot" Bowdoin College, 1877-1902. 17 

from hazing. The jury is composed as follows : 
Each of the four classes elects one memher ; each 
chartered chapter of an intercollegiate fraternity elects 
one member : and all who do not belong to any such 
fraternity elect one member. It holds regular meet- 
ings during term time, and a special meeting can be 
summoned bv its foreman, or on the request of the 
president, or on the written request of three students. 
It has absolute and final jurisdiction over all cases of 
public disorder and all offenses committed b\' students 
against each other: while the president retains jurisdic- 
tion over conduct during college exercises, damage to 
college buildings, and matters of personal morality 
which affect, primarily, the character and reputation of 
individual students. On several occasions since 1883, 
when the jury was tirst organized, it has dealt with 
cases of hazing, and instances of public disorder, in a 
manner which has met with the same amount of public 
approbation, to say the least, which was granted afore- 
time to decisions of the college faculty. While the jurv 
has not neglected its dut}' when any specitic offense has 
been brought to its attention, it has, during these years, 
never evinced a desire to magnify its functions, but 
rather to assume an attitude quite characteristic of 
public otlicials in a prohibition State. 

The new ranking system meets the vexatious ques- 
tion of attendance at required exercises far more satis- 
factorih' than the old method of demerits and three 
stages which kept careless students on the verge of dis- 
missal, and occasioned a lamentable amount of sickness 
among an apparently healthy bod\- of young men. The 
present plan is based upon two principles. First, that 
attendance at an exercise is in itself an essential part of 
the instruction the college offers. Second, that the 
number of short absences for legitimate causes during a 
period of four years is about the same for all students, 



i8 Sketch of Bowdoin College, 1877-1902. 

so that no real injustice is shown by refusing to excuse 
them. The student, therefore, who attends all the re- 
quired recitations in a subject, receives a perfect atten- 
dance mark of six. If he performs in a perfectly 
satisfactory manner the required work of the depart- 
ment, he receives an additional mark of ten. These 
marks are averaged together and give eight as the 
maximum rank. The minimum rank allowed is five 
and a half. It is, therefore, evident that one who ab- 
sents himself from fifty per cent, of the required exer- 
cises in any course must attain an average recitation 
mark of eight at those he does attend, or else be dropped 
from his class. This relation of attendance to the class 
standing is well understood, and meets with general 
approval by the student body. If we may trust the 
testimony of teachers who have come here from other 
colleges, it has secured a better average attendance on 
recitations than is usual elsewhere. 

College customs and recreations remain much the 
same. Anna Lytics is no longer buried, but Seniors' 
Last Chapel is more of an event than ever, though 
hardly as impressive as in our day. Boating and class 
races have passed away, but tennis has come and foot- 
ball grown into a science that demands all the time, 
strength, and mental ability its devotees can muster. 
Ivy Day continues the special festival of Bowdoin 
Juniors, but Field Day has been swallowed up in a 
series of intercollegiate contests, only a few of which 
are held in Brunswick. Our winter term gymnastic 
exhibitions are succeeded by the annual indoor athletic 
meets. These, it must be confessed, seem a trifle tame 
and wearisome to one who remembers the interest and 
excitement with which we watched the movements of the 
Greene brothers on the trapeze, the agility of C. E. 
Cobb and C. A. Perry, and the posturing of Bolster, 
Williams, and Wiggin in the " three high." Quite 



Sketch of Bowdoin College, 1877-1902. 19 

likely the difference is subjective, and due to a slower 
flow of blood in one's own veins. 

Student life has kept pace with the advance in mate- 
rial comforts and conveniences which has characterized 
the last quarter century. No undergraduate lugs coal 
or carries water — unless he be a sophomore — or buys 
kerosene oil ; while a few maintain that rubber boots are 
no longer a necessity. The three dormitories have 
been renovated throughout and are heated by steam, 
lighted by electricity, and provided with water-closets 
and sinks. The rooms, always commodious, seem even 
more so since the familiar feature of the large coal 
stove has disappeared. In place of end-women, white 
capped janitors have the care of the rooms, and are 
expected to be " on deck " during a reasonable number 
of hours each day. Three large and attractive chapter- 
houses have been erected, of which one, at least, 
affords every convenience and luxury obtainable in a 
modern cit}- residence. 

The completion of Memorial Hall and the erection 
of five new buildings have given Bowdoin a material 
equipment which is not surpassed by any New England 
college of its rank, and equaled by few. The first of 
these to be built was the Sargent Gymnasium, which 
stands behind the line of the dormitories and looks out 
between Maine and Winthrop Halls. Nothing illus- 
trates more forcibly the rapid advance, or, at least, the 
rapid change in methods of physical culture, than the 
fact that this structure, carefully planned and well 
adapted for the use of the college fifteen years ago, is 
now insufficient to meet the demands of this department. 
The replacement of Swedish and German gymnastics 
by indoor athletics, and by games like basket ball, has 
rendered desirable a building much larger than the 
present structure. Connected with the gymnasium by 
a pleasant path through the pines is the Whittier 



20 Sketch of Bowdoin College, 1877-1902. 

Athletic Field. Nature has given the field the advan- 
tage of the level surface so characteristic of Brunswick, 
as well as an encircling border of eve'^greens. Art and 
industry have secured an excellent oval for football and 
baseball, with a quarter-mile cinder track. The gen- 
erosity of the New York alumnus, whose name is so 
often on our lips, provides the present season a 
modern grand stand, with waiting rooms and all other 
conveniences for the contestants. 

Those of our classmates who felt aggrieved that we 
were required to study astronomy, and yet were given 
no facilities for seeing the stars, will take satisfaction in 
the fact that the second building to be erected after our 
departure was a small but well-equipped observator}'-, 
admirably adapted for purposes of instruction. 

Over half a century ago a Massachusetts merchant 
gave one thousand dollars to finish in the then incom- 
plete chapel a room for the exhibition of the Bowdoin 
paintings. This room was named " The Sophia 
Walker Gallery " in memory of his mother. The cen- 
tennial year of the college was signalized by the dedi- 
cation of a beautiful structure erected by the nieces of 
this Boston merchant as his own memorial, and for the 
proper preservation of the objects of art possessed by 
the college, a collection very materially increased by 
their subsequent generosity. The Walker Art Building 
is regarded by architectural critics as one of the finest 
of the many notable structures designed by Messrs. 
McKim, Mead & White, of New York City. It is 
absolutely fireproof as regards its construction, and its 
interior decorations by leading American artists, to- 
gether with its contents, have made it the one building 
in Maine which no lover of art fails to visit. 

In 1892 the departments of chemistry, physics, and 
biology, feeling that the character of their instruction 
was being seriously affected by the narrow quarters 



Sketch of Bowdoin College, 1877-1902. 21 

assigned them in Adams and Massachusetts Hall, 
vmited in an earnest appeal for improved facilities. The 
appeal was voiced in the president's report for that year 
and met with an immediate response. By the gene- 
rosity of Mr. Edward F. Searles there was erected, 
during the next two seasons as a memorial of his wife, 
the present Science Building. Its cost, including equip- 
ment, approached two hundred thousand dollars. It 
provides for every facility which the observation and 
ingenuity of three professors of ability and experience 
could suggest. Its ample laboratories, its well-lighted 
recitation rooms, private offices, and commodious store- 
rooms afford space for the instruction of classes larger 
than Bowdoin has now, or can naturally be expected to 
have unless the population of the State increases, or 
our standard of admission decreases. 

The college library, which in our day was a dull 
competitor with the more attractive collections belong- 
ing to the Peucinian and Athenjean Societies, shortly 
after awaked from its slumbers and took possession of 
the two society libraries, as well as of the south wing 
of the chapel in which we were wont to consider long 
and earnestly whether credit could be regarded as capi- 
tal. As the years advanced it grew more and more 
grasping until it had occupied and overflowed all the 
apartments of the chapel structure save that devoted to 
worship. When its further growth seemed about to be 
checked by lack of space, Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard, 
of New York City, charged the college to erect at his 
expense such a library building as the needs of the col- 
lege, present and future, should demand. As a result 
of his generosity there will be completed the present 
year a fireproof structure with a capacity for two hun- 
dred thousand volumes, with administration, conference, 
and study rooms sufficient to meet every possible need of 
our alma mater in this direction for (fenerations to come. 



22 Sketch of Bowdoin College, 1877-1902. 

Hand in hand with the erecdon of the new buildings 
has gone on die work of heating and lighting from a 
central power house, of leveling and draining the campus, 
of improving the quality of its turf, of planting hundreds 
of pines in the rear of the dormitories to take the place of 
those that were falling of old age. Last but not least, 
the class of '75 have erected as a memorial of their 
interest in alma mater a simple but impressive entrance 
at the end of the main walk from the chapel, in which 
two granite monoliths are the prominent features. 

It is my duty to explain that a comfortable tempera- 
ture in the college library during the winter season has 
indirectly brought injury to the class ivy. The con- 
tinuous heating of the chapel from the central station 
has caused warm roofs. These have made ice and 
miniature avalanches from the eaves. These in turn 
have checked the upward and onward development of 
a vine which a few years since showed enterprise char- 
acteristic of its name. 

In closing a sketch in which man}' points of interest 
have necessarily been omitted, a few words respecting 
alma mater's cash account will not be out of place. In 
1877 she valued her property, aside from the campus 
and its buildings, at three hundred and seventy thou- 
sand dollars. In 1902 her invested funds amount to 
seven hundred .and eighty thousand dollars. This hand- 
some increase is due mainly to the large sums received 
under the wills of Daniel B. Fayerweather, Esq., of 
New York Cit}^ and of Mrs. Catherme Merritt Garce- 
lon, of Oakland, Cal. It would seem, at first thought,, 
that the doubling of the principal would double the in- 
come, and that the college is as prosperous in its finances 
as it is in its material equipment. Such, however, is 
not the case. The securities held in 1877 brought the 
college an average of over six per cent. Those held 
to-day hardly net four per cent. A small deficit, ac- 



Sketch of Bowdoin College, 1877-1902. 23 

cording to a prominent college president, is a good 
thin<; for an institution. Bowdoin has had a deficit for 
the last seven years, but, unfortunately, in several of 
them it has not been small. That the number and 
salaries of the college faculty have been slightly in- 
creased is due quite as much to the increased income 
from the student body as to that from invested funds. 
The year we graduated, the students paid in round 
numbers to the college treasury fovn-teen thousand dol- 
lars. In the present year they paid upwards of thirty 
thousand. It is manifestly improbable that this latter 
source of income should grow much greater, in view of 
the strong competition offered by other New England 
colleges with more teachers and larger scholarships. A 
special effort is being made at the present time to secure 
from the alumni and friends of the college that further 
endowment of the institution which will permit it to dis- 
charge its work in the century just beginning even 
more faithfullv and successfully than it has done in that 
now closed. 



I knew him as myself; for from our infancy 
IVe have conversed and spent our hours together; 
And though myself have been an idle truant, 
Omitting the sweet benefit of time 
To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection. 
Yet hath Sir Proteus (for thafs his name) 
Made use and fair advantage of his days: 
His years but young, but his experience old: 
Bis head unmellowed, but his judgment ripe: 
And in a 7vord {far, far behind his worth) 
Comes all the praises that I now bestow. 

— Two Gentlemen of Verona 



The Class 



The Class. 



William Gerrish Beale. 

In the September following graduation Mr. Beale 
left Maine and went to Indiana, where he taught until 
February, 1878, when he accepted the principalship of 
the high school in Hyde Park, 111. This position he 
retained until June, 1881, in the meantime studying 
law in the office of Messrs. Williams & Thompson, of 
Chicago. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in March, 
1881, and in July following became a law clerk in the 
office of Messrs. Isham & Lincoln, one of the promi- 
nent law tirms of Chicago. In July, 1886, he was ad- 
mitted to partnership therein, the firm name becoming 
Isham, Lincoln & Beale. The firm has an extensive 
practise, largely in chancery and corporation law. He 
is fond of his profession, devotes himself to it closely, 
and has achieved an honorable place at the bar. He 
was one of the attorneys in the last stages of the litiga- 
tion on the estate of Walter L. Newbury, and in the 
great foreclosure suit of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pa- 
cific Railway Company before Judge Gresham. He 
writes that his record must stand much as it did in our 
class report of 1887, "except that I have now two 
junior partners whom I make do the work when I can." 
In 1887 he was appointed by Mayor Roche a member 
of the Board of Education of the city of Chicago, and 
was made president of the Board, but declined a reap- 
pointment for a second term. Mr. Beale is a Repub- 
lican, but takes no active part in politics, and " the only 

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28 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

offices I have held," he writes, " or ever wish to hold, 
have been those of Corporation Counsel of this city and 
a member and president of the Board of Education." 
He is " a member of the leading social clubs of Chi- 
cago as well as of several in New York. The thousand 
and one organizations and associations, charitable and 
otherwise, to which one has to belong in a large city 
like this are hardlv worth mentioning." His chief rec- 
reations from professional work are hunting and fish- 
incr. Mr. Beale is not married. 



Edward Harwood Blake. 

After leaving college Mr. Blake passed some time 
in European travel, subsequently pursuing a post- 
graduate course of study in English literature and 
philosophy at Harvard Universit3^ He was graduated 
at the Albany Law School in 1878, when he returned to 
his home in Bangor, Maine, and began at once the 
practise of his profession. He has lived in Bangor ever 
since, engaged in the practise of law and in business 
operations, though he has made repeated visits to 
Europe, some of which have been of long duration. 

He has served as mayor of the city of Bangor, be- 
ing elected upon the Republican ticket, and he has 
been director, vice-president, and president of the 
Merchants National Bank of Bangor. A few years ago 
he acquired a controlling interest in the Bangor Dailv 
Nezvs^ one of the younger dailies of eastern Maine, 
and one of the most enterprising, which about two years 
since purchased and merged with itself the long-estab- 
lished and influential Republican daily of Bangor, the 
Whig and Courier. 

Mr. Blake is not married. 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 29 

Alvan Joseph Bolster. 



Born at Dixfield, Maine, Dec. 20, 1855. 
Died at Sionx Citv, Iowa, Dec. 12, 1885. 



For three vears after leaving college Mr. Bolster was 
engaged in teaching, his vacations and leisure being 
given to the study of law. In the fall of 1879 ^^^ ^^^^ 
Maine for the West, and Jan. 12, 1880, at Sioux Falls, 
Dak., he was admitted to the practise of law in the 
courts of the territory. Settling in Dell Rapids, Dak., 
he formed soon after a partnership with Albion Thorne, 
Esq., one of the early settlers of Dakota, under the hrm 
name of Thorne & Bolster. iVs is true in all new com- 
munities, the practise of law was supplemented with a 
general land office business, locating parties on govern- 
ment lands, making tinal proof papers, etc. He liked 
tile West : he never saw a moment when he regretted 
going West, and his law practise and general business 
grew witli every vear. For some years he was, too, 
engaged by Gregg & Co. as their traveling collector 
for Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. In the fall of 1882 
he removed to Devil Lake, Dak., where he remained 
nearlv three years, engaged in his profession and in 
surveying ; but the business prospect not seeming so 
favorable there, he returned to Dell Rapids in 1885. 
At the time of his death he conducted a large real 
estate and insurance business, and had lately completed, 
very satisfactorilv, some extensive purchases of Dakota 
lands for Auburn and Lewiston people. He was cor- 
poration counsel for two banks in his home city, 
Auburn, Maine. His death was most sudden, he being 
discovered dead in his bed at the Planter Hotel, Sioux 
City, Iowa, where he had gone the same day to remain 
for the night. The coroner's jury, summoned to inves- 



30 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

tigate the cause of death, returned a verdict that he 
" came to his death through paralysis of the heart." 
Mr. Bolster was much beloved by the people of Dell 
Rapids, and universal sympathy was expressed on 
receipt of the news of his unexpected decease. 

Osgar Brinkerhoff. 

During at least the first twelve years following his 
graduation Mr. Brinkerhoff was engaged in the work of 
teaching. The first two or three years of this time he 
occupied positions in Fairhaven, New York, and in 
Vermont. In 1880 he accepted an appointment in 
Atlanta, 111. In 1886 he wrote : "I am still teach- 
ing here (Atlanta) ; have a very pleasant school. 
There are in the building eight teachers besides myself. 
I have six recitations of a half-hour each, and spend the 
rest of my time in the other rooms. Am not satisfied 
with teaching in a pecuniary view ; otherwise would not 
care to change. Have never been a seeker after office 
or social distinction, but in my quiet way strive to attend 
to my duties." In 1887 he wrote again, offering no 
new items for the class report which appeared that year 
and adding, "I have become so disheartened and 
discouraged that I scarcely care what happens." His 
nervous system had become unstrung, possibly through 
overwork, and he was subject to periods of melancholia. 
He remained at Atlanta, however, until 1888, when he 
removed to Goodland, Kan., where he became principal 
of Clark's Academy. He retained this position about 
two years, carrying along with his school work his pri- 
vate study of the law and being admitted to the bar of 
Sherman County, Kan. In December, 1890, he dis- 
appeared suddenly from Goodland, giving none of his 
friends (and his gentle spirit and kindly nature had won 
him warm friends in both Atlanta and Goodland) any 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 31 

intimation of his purpose to take such a step. He is 
known to have gone to Denver, Col., but how long he 
remained there is not certain. A wide and careful cor- 
respondence, covering several years and addressed to 
all who were ascertained to be his personal friends in 
the West, has failed to bring any definite information 
as to his life after that time or regarding his present 
whereabouts. 

The latest word that can be regarded as of any signifi- 
cance whatever came in September, 1901, in a letter 
from Mr. A. P. West, president of the Columbia Sav- 
ings Bank, of Los Angeles, Cal. Writing at that time 
Mr. West told of an interview that he had with Mr. 
Brinkerhoff in Los Angeles eight years before, about 
October, 1893. He says: "I met Brink on the street 
dressed something after the order of a mountaineer. 
On his first glance at me he looked away and seemed to 
try to pass unseen, but I crossed over to the side of the 
walk he was on and spoke to him. It was after bank- 
ing hours and I invited him to go to the bank with me 
for a talk. After saying he was in a hurry and would 
see me again, I insisted on his going then, which he re- 
luctantly did, and we then went into my office and talked 
half an hour or so. He told me that he had spent a 
long spell in the Sierra Madre Mountains, but he seemed 
ill at ease and would not talk of his whereabouts or busi- 
ness here. Since that time I have neither seen nor 
heard anything from or of him." 

Philip Greely Brown. 

In the summer of 1877 Mr. Brown entered the bank- 
ing house of J. B. Brown & Sons, of Pordand, Maine. 
Upon the death of Hon. John B. Brown, and the con- 
sequent reorganization of the firm, he was, in 1881, 
admitted to partnership therein, the firm name remaining 



32 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

as before. He has continued in an active and varied 
business life in Portland to the present time. The firm 
of J. B. Brown & Sons was dissolved in 1893, to be 
succeeded by the corporation known as the P. H. & 
J. M. Brown Company, of which Mr. Brown was 
elected treasurer, a position which he has held ever 
since. In the latter part of 1893 he was appointed a 




trustee of the J. B. Brown estate in place of his father, 
Mr. Philip Henr}^ Brown, deceased. 

Mr. Brown is also a director of the First National 
Bank, of the Union Safe Deposit & Trust Company, of 
the Atwood Lead Company, and of the Portland Dry 
Dock Company, all of Portland; a director of the 
Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad Compan}^, of the 
Vermilion Railroad & Light Company, a corporator of 
the Portland Savings Bank; has been treasurer of the 
Portland Society of Art, and for years a member of the 
Merchants Exchange, acting a part of the time as a 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. t,^ 

member of the Standing Committee of the ^lerchants 
Exchantre in the Portland Board of Trade. 

He is a non-resident member of the Calumet Club, of 
New York City, and an active member of many Port- 
land clubs, among which are the Cumberland, Athletic, 
Yacht, Golf, and Art clubs, and he has been treasurer 
of the Citizens' Mutual Relief Association, an associa- 
tion numbering over one thousand members. Politically 
he is a Republican. 

Mr. Brown was given the degree of A. B., out of 
course, by vote of the trustees of Bowdoin College at 
the Commencement of 1885. His residence is at 85 
Vaughan Street, Portland, where he entertained the 
class most handsomely at dinner on the occasion of its 
twentieth reunion in June, 1897. 

Mr. Brown is not married. 



John Eliphaz Chapman. 

A PART of the year following graduation Mr. Chap- 
man passed in European travel, visiting England, Scot- 
land, France, and Italy. In the fall of 1878 he began 
the study of law with Messrs. Strout & Holmes, of 
Portland, Maine, continuing; until October, 1880, when 
he took a third year as special student in the Harvard 
Law School. Remaining in Boston, Mass., he con- 
nected himself in the autumn of 1883 with Messrs. Otis 
& Andrew, counselors-at-law, having otiices in the 
Globe Buildinfj, where he continued a little more than 
four years. Beginning early in 1888 he occupied for a 
short time an editorial position on the Boston Co}nino)i- 
zuealt/i, but in December, 1890, he accepted a position 
on the editorial staff of the Youth's Companion. Here 
he remained for nearly seven years. In January, 1897, 
occurred the death of his valued and beloved friend and 



34 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 



law preceptor, Mr. Albert B. Otis. This devolved 
upon Mr. Chapman the duties of an executor of Mr. 
Otis' will, and subsequently the care of a trust estate 
created by the will. It involved, also, the completion 
of the administration upon two other estates, and, as a 
result of the circumstances, the direction of other trust 
estates of size. The i-esponsibilities thus coming to him 
made it impossible to continue the editorial work with 
the Companion, and he withdrew from the paper in 




May, 1897. Since that date his time has been occupied 
almost wholly with the management of trust estates. 

He is a member of the St. Botolph Club, being on 
the Executive Committee and the Art and Library 
Committee, and also librarian of the Club, a member of 
the Bowdoin Club, the Mount Vernon Club, and the 
Massachusetts Single Tax League. 

He is not married. 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 35 

Charles Edwin Cobb. 

Immediately after graduation Mr. Cobb entered 
business with his father, becoming bookkeeper and 
general accountant for John F. Cobb & Co., manufac- 
turers and wholesale dealers in boots and shoes, Au- 
burn, Maine. On Dec. i, 1881, he was admitted to 
partnership in the firm. For several years thereafter 
he traveled much of the time in the West and South- 




west in the interests of the firm, during the spring and 
fall months, however, having practical control of selling 
at the Boston office of the firm. Somewhat later, with 
Royal M. Mason and Elton C. Briggs he organized the 
corporation of the Mason-Cobb Company for the manu- 
facture of fine grade shoes, the factories of the com- 
pany being located in Kennebunk, Maine, and its 
chief salesrooms at 2 High Street, Boston. Mr. 
Cobb served as treasurer of this corporation for about 



36 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

four years. In November, 1901, he removed to Gar- 
diner, Maine, to become resident manager of the Gar- 
diner factory of the Commonwealth Shoe and Leather 
Company, and he occupies this position at the present 
time. The company has factories also at Whitman, 
Mass., and Skowhegan, Maine, and its Boston offices 
are at 66 Lincoln Street. 

Mr. Cobb is a Republican, but has never taken active 
part in political life. In March, 1883, he was elected 
a member of the Superintending School Committee of 
the city of Auburn, and in March, 1884, was reelected 
for a term of two years. He married, Dec. 24, 1878, 
Miss Annie Carroll Bradford of Auburn, and has four 
children: Laura Bradford, born May 4, 1881 ; Mary 
Agnes, born March 3, 1884 ; Lena Margretta, born 
Dec. 5, 1887 ; and Maurice, born Jan. 4, 189^. 

William Titcomb Cobb. 

During the two years following graduation Mr. 
Cobb studied in the Universities of Leipzig and Berlin, 
Germany, the university vacations being occupied 
with short trips to other continental countries. On his 
return to the United States he entered the Harvard Law 
School, remaining through the academic year 1879- 
80, and then continuing his law studies with Messrs. 
Rice & Hall, of Rockland, Maine. He was admitted 
to the bar of Knox County in December, 1880, but did 
not engage in practise, preferring a business life, and 
entered at once the firm of Cobb, Wight & Co., whole- 
sale and retail grocers and ship-chandlers of Rockland. 
Subsequently he formed a partnership with his father, 
Mr. Francis Cobb, under the firm name of Francis 
Cobb & Co., for the manufacture of lime at Rockland. 
Upon the death of his father in 1890 he became presi- 
dent of the Cobb Lime Company, a company incorpo- 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 



37 



rated in 187 1 for the manufacture of extra white and 
finisliing lime, and remained in this position until the 
sale of this property to the Rockland-Rockport Lime 
Company in 1900. He has not at present any connec- 
tion with the active management of the lime business, 
but is a member of the firm of Cobb, Wight & Co., 
wholesale grocers, and of Cobb, Butler & Co., ship- 
builders. He is a director in the Rockland National 
Bank, the Rockland Trust Company, the Camden and 




Rockland Water Company, the Rockland-Rockport 
Lime Company, the Rockland, Thomaston, and Cam- 
den Street Railway, and the Eastern Telephone Com- 
pany. Mr. Cobb is a Republican, and in 1889-90 
was a member of Governor Burleigh's Executive Coun- 
cil. He presided over the Republican State Convention, 
held at Lewiston, in April, 1900. He married, June 
14, 1882, Miss Lucy Callie Banks, only daughter of 
Dr. W. A. Banks, of Rockland, and has two children : 



38 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

Martha Banks, born April 9, 1883, and Anna West, 
born July 16, 1891. 

Edrar Millard Cousins. 

In the autumn following graduation Mr. Cousins 
entered the Bangor Theological Seminary, where he 
pursued the full course and was graduated June 2, 1880. 
During the two summers of his seminary course he sup- 
plied the pulpit of the Congregational Church in Bur- 
lington, Maine. In his senior year at the seminary he 
received and accepted a call to the pastorate of the Con- 
gregational Church in Cherryfield, Maine, where he 
was ordained and installed June 9, 1880. Here he re- 
mained three years, resigning in July, 1883, to become 
acting pastor of the West Congregational Church in 
Portland, Maine. In May of the following year he 
accepted an urgent call to the pastorate of the Warren 
Church, Cumberland Mills, Maine, in which he was 
installed June 12, 1884, and where he remained more 
than nine years. During these years the Warren 
Church doubled its membership, while its church build- 
ing was remodeled and enlarged to meet the increasing 
demands upon it, and it came to be recognized as one of 
the strong and active churches of the State. Closino; 
his labors with this church Sept. 30, 1893, and declining 
two calls to important churches out of the State, he 
accepted at once an invitation to become Associate 
Secretary of the Maine Missionary Society, a then 
newly created office involving the presentation of the 
society's work to the churches of the State. The 
tinancial depression and other unexpected conditions 
made it seem wise to resign this office two years later. 
A pleasant pastorate of three years was passed in Gray, 
Maine, and in 1898 a call was accepted to the Second 
Church in Biddeford, Maine. Here he remained two 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 39 

years and a half, resigning in April, 1901, and accept- 
ing a call to his present field of labor, the pastorate of 
the Congregational Church in Thomaston, Maine. 

In whatever community his work has lain, Mr. 
Cousins has identified himself with its educational 
interests. When Westbrook (of which Cumberland 
Mills is a part) became a city, he was made a mem- 
ber of the School Board and remained so as long as 
he lived in the city. He was chairman of the board 
for two years, during which the school work of the city 
was remodeled and put upon its present excellent basis. 
He was Supervisor of Schools in Gray during his pas- 
torate in that town, and he has for several years been 
a member of the Board of Overseers of Bowdoin 
College. He published, in 1894, " Centennial Ser- 
mon of the Mount Desert Congregational Church, with 
Historical Notes," in book form, and has also, from time 
to time, published many sermons and articles in the 
weekly and the religious press. Since 1891 he has 
been corresponding and statistical secretary of the 
General Conference of the Congregational Churches of 
Maine, and, since 1898, consulting editor for Maine of 
the Congregationalist. When amid all the confining 
duties of a busy life he finds it possible, he likes to go 
fishing as well as ever he did. 

Mr. Cousins married, June 10, 1881, Miss Ella 
Nickels Burnham, of Cherryfield, who died Aug. 2, 
1882, of consumption. On Sept. 26, 1883, he married 
Miss Ella Maria Burnham, of Machias, Maine, and has 
had six children : John Chapman, born July 18, 1884, 
who died Jan. 29, 1900; Irene, born Feb. i, 1887; 
Edgar Fuller, born May 24, 1888 ; Mary Longfellow, 
born Jan. 10, 1892 ; Herbert Burnham, born July 26, 
1894; and Sanford Burnham, born Oct. i, 1898. The 
eldest daughter, Irene, is preparing for Mount Holyoke 
College. 



40 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

Frank Herbert Crocker. 

After graduation he engaged for a time in the 
apothecary and drug business at Machias, Maine. He 
then began the study of medicine in that town with Dr. 
S. B. Hunter and Dr. Henry H. Smith ('77), as pre- 
ceptors, and also at the Medical School of Maine, in 
Brunswick. He was graduated at that institution 
May 31, 1882, and almost immediately thereafter 




opened an office in Boothbay, Maine, where his time 
was soon fully occupied with a good and growing prac- 
tise. Dr. Crocker has always found the greatest pleas- 
ure in his professional work, but during such leisure as 
its duties have allowed him he has striven to keep in 
touch with the general world of literature and affairs, 
and his private library is a valuable one. In 1891 he 
went from Boothbay to Machias, where he practised 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 41 

eight years, removing in 1899 ^° Gardiner, Maine, 
where he has since followed his profession. 

Dr. Crocker married, June 6, 1883, Miss Lucy Has- 
kell Crane, of Machias, and has two children : Julia 
Lydia, born Nov. 15, 1885, and David Evans, born 
March 17, 1888. 

Frederick Henry Dillingham. 

Immediately after graduation he began the study of 
medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
New York City, and was graduated March 12, 1880. 
In October of the same year, after six months' service 
as assistant surgeon, he was appointed house surgeon 
of St. Francis Hospital, New York, and also opened 
an office for private practise at his residence, then 
1 18 East 17th Street. On Feb. i, 1881, he became house 
physician of the same hospital, which position he held 
by reappointment until his resignation in February of 
the following year. In January, 1882, he was ap- 
pointed sanitary inspector of the Board of Health of 
New York, being one of four successful candidates out 
of more than four hundred applicants. In 1887 he was 
promoted to diagnostician, and April 5, 1893, to assis- 
tant sanitary superintendent. On Jan. i, 1898, upon 
the consolidation of the Greater New York, Dr. Dilling- 
ham became assistant sanitary superintendent of the 
Borough of Manhattan, a position which he holds at 
the present time, having charge of the department in 
that Borough, and having more than five hundred em- 
ployees under him. 

The foregoing may be called the civic activities of Dr. 
Dillingham. In the meantime, in what may be con- 
sidered the more private sphere of his professional work, 
he had, in November, 1884, been appointed assistant to 
the professor of diseases of children at the New York 



42 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, followed 
by appointment, in January, 1885, as attending physi- 
cian at the New York Free Dispensary for children. 
In this year Dr. Dillingham began to give especial at- 
tention to the study of dermatology, and in October he 
was appointed assistant to the professor of dermatol- 
ogy, at the New York Polyclinic. On May 5, 1892, 
he was promoted to lecturer on dermatology, and on 




June 13, 1895, he was made adjunct professor of der- 
matology at the New York Polyclinic, a position which 
he still holds. During the years 1886 and 1887, also, 
he was assistant physician of the heart and lungs at 
the Dewitt Dispensary of New York. He has 
published " Diagnosis of Typhus Fever," in the 
New York Polyclinic, " A Case of Poisoning by Sul- 
phonal," in the Medical Record, and other professional 
articles. 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 43 

Dr. Dillingham was one of the founders of the Psi 
Upsilon Club of New York, and has served at times on 
the Board of Governors, and as chairman of the House 
Committee. At present he is one of its vice-presidents. 
He is also a member of the Academy of Medicine, of 
the Medical Society of the County of New York, of the 
New York Society for the Relief of Widows and Or- 
phans of Medical Men, of the Physicians' Mutual Aid 
Association, of the Medical Association of the Greater 
City of New York, and was secretary of the Section of 
Hygiene of the Academy of Medicine in 1892, 1893, 
and 1894. When he can get time for any recreation he 
turns to golf. 

On Nov. 15, 1893, Dr. Dillingham married Miss 
Helen Alexander Ganson at Christ Church, New York 
City. In scarcely more than two months — on Jan. 20, 
1894 — Mrs. Dillingham died very suddenly from la 
grippe. On Nov. 3, 1897, Dr. Dillingham married 
Mrs. Susy Ganson Ferguson, of New York, the cere- 
mony occurring at Grace Church. 
They have no children. 

Edward Everett Dunbar. 

After leaving college, in his sophomore year, Mr. 
Dunbar entered the printing business, and with his 
brother, under the firm name of Dunbar Brothers, es- 
tablished at Damariscotta, Maine, the Village Herald 
and Lincoln Record, a weekly newspaper, the first 
number appearing Nov. 15, 1876. The Herald and 
Record was successful from the start, was at least twice 
enlarged, and was equipped with a new and improved 
cylinder press. With the paper was connected also a 
book and commercial job-printing business. Mr. Dun- 
bar condnued to conduct this paper until the fall of 1893, 
when he sold out and a year later purchased an interest 



44 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

in the Daily Star of Rockland, Maine, with which he 
was connected for four years. In 1897 he disposed of 
his interest in the Star and removed to Boston, Mass., 
to engage in the business of manufacturing stereotype 
and linotype metals and refining drosses. At the pres- 
ent time he is carrying on this business in Boston, and 
also the business of job and book printing. 

Mr. Dunbar is a Republican, and during his resi- 
dence in Maine was somewhat prominent in political 
affairs. He was repeatedly a delegate to State Con- 
gressional and County conventions ; was a member of 
the School Committee of Damariscotta, 1893-94 ; was 
secretary of the Lincoln County Agricultural Society, 
1890-94; and from 1891 to 1894 was delegate from 
the Second Congressional District of Maine to the Na- 
tional Farmers' Congress, by appointment of the gov- 
ernor. He is a member of the Knights of Honor, the 
Knights of the Golden Cross, and the Knights of 
Pythias. 

He married, Nov. 22, 1876, Miss Mary Annie Day, 
of Damariscotta, and they have three children : Mabel 
Annie, born Jan. 13, 1878; Harold Everett, born Dec. 
10, 1879; ^"^^ Alice Lucinda, born March 13, 1883. 
Harold has passed the examination for admission to 
Bowdoin College. 

Charles Thomas Evans. 

After leaving college Mr. Evans was, for a time, 
cashier in his brother's insurance agency in Philadel- 
phia, Pa., and subsequently in the office of the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad. He then became secretary of Echo 
Farm, in Litchfield, Conn., where he stayed until the 
fall of 1880, when he resigned and entered the insur- 
ance business in Philadelphia. He has continued as 
insurance agent and broker to the present time, occupy- 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77 



45 



ing practically the same offices for more than twenty 
years, at 428 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. He holds 
the agenc}' for man}^ of the largest and most important 
companies in both fire and life insurance. His resi- 
dence, since May, 1892, has been at 203 West Walnut 
Lane, Germantown, Philadelphia. He is a member of 
the Pennsylvania Historical Society, of the Presbyterian 
Historical Society, of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of 
the Revolution, of the New England Society of Penn- 




sylvania, of the Young Republican's Club, of the Site 
and Relic Society of Germantown, and of the Philadel- 
phia Board of Trade. Politically he classifies himself 
as a Republican in national questions, an Independent 
in municipal affairs. 

On Oct. 20, 1880, Mr. Evans married Miss Susan 
Strickler Greene, of Philadelphia, and has had six 
children : Martha Houston, born Oct. 15, 188 1 ; John 
James Houston, born Dec. 11, 1883 ; Annie Greene, 



46 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

born Aug. 19, 1885, but who died March 12, 1886; 
Sarah Fifield, born Feb. 22, 1888 ; Stephen Greene, 
born Feb. 17, 1890, but who died Aug. 4, 1897 ; and 
Charles Thomas, Jr., born June 18, 1894. The eldest 
daughter, Martha Houston Evans, is a student in the 
Philadelphia School of Design for Women. John James 
Houston Evans entered the University of Pennsylvania 
in November last year, as a member of the class of 1905. 
Sarah Fifield Evans is in Walnut Lane Seminary, pre- 
paring for Bryn Mawr College. Mr. Evans writes that 
"the entrance of my oldest son into the University of 
Pennsylvania, calls up, as a matter of course, my own 
college days, and I find myself sympathizing with those 
matters which so much interest him." 

David Blin Fuller. 

During the year following graduation Mr. Fuller 
taught in Gorham, Maine, and in Gray, Maine. In the 
autumn of 1878 he became principal of the Greeley In- 
stitute, Cumberland Center, Maine, where he stayed 
three years, to the highest satisfaction of trustees, parents, 
and pupils. He then resigned, and entered for a short 
time the law office of E. F. Webb, Esq., Waterville, 
Maine, removing in the late fall of that year, 1881, to 
Kansas, where he was admitted to the bar Dec. 14, 1881. 
On Jan. i, 1882, he formed a law partnership with J. B. 
Clogston, Esq., under the firm name of Clogston & 
Fuller, at Eureka, Kan., where Mr. Fuller has since 
been engaged in the active practise of his profession, 
now more than twenty-one years. In 1887, his partner, 
Mr. Clogston, was appointed a justice in the Supreme 
Court of Kansas, and for the next three years Mr. Fuller 
conducted the business alone. On March i, 1890, 
however, Judge Clogston resigned his position on the 
supreme bench, and the partnership of Clogston & 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 



47 



Fuller was resumed, continuing undl Dec. i, 1897, 
when it was dissolved by mutual consent, Judge Clog- 
ston retiring. Mr. Fuller practised alone until June i, 
1900, when he formed his present partnership with 
F. S. Jackson, under the name of Fuller & Jackson. 
The firm has by far the leading business of the county 
and one of the best-equipped law offices in the State. 
Their practise is carried on in all the courts except the 
Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Fuller has 




been local attorney for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa 
Fe Railway Company, the Missouri Pacific Railway 
Company, and the St. Louis & San Francisco Rail- 
road Compan}^, and has been a director of the First 
National Bank of Eureka continuously since 1887 and 
its attorney since 1885. He has never been a candi- 
date for any political office, although several times 
solicited to stand for district judge and for prosecuting 
attorney. He was an ardent supporter of the candi- 



48 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

dacy of James G. Blaine for president, and has acted 
with the Republican party since, serving as chairman of 
the County Central Committee and a member of the 
State Central Committee. During the greater part of 
his residence in Eureka he has been a member of the 
School Board of his city, and has many times been 
president of the Board, a position which he holds now. 

Mr. Fuller has taken an active interest in matters 
pertaining to masonry. He was Grand Master of the 
State in 1892 and 1893, was elected to receive the 33d 
Degree at Washington in October of last year, and at 
present is one of the grand officers of the Grand Com- 
mandery. He was elected the first president of the 
Board of Directors of the Kansas Masonic Home, and 
has been unanimously reelected each year since. 

" The county in which I am located," Mr. Fuller 
writes, " is the largest cattle count}^ in the State. It is 
not unusual for our large dealers to have a quarter of a 
million dollars invested in cattle at one time. I was in 
one pasture last year which contained something over 
twenty-five thousand acres. The fencing around it was 
about seventy-five miles in length, and it was the busi- 
ness of three men with ponies to do nothing but 'ride the 
fences ' and see that they were in suitable repair. These 
large pastures are usually watered by artificial ponds, 
and there are so many over the county that we get an 
unusual number of geese and ducks, affording the best 
of shooting. We have quail and prairie chicken in 
abundance, September and October being the best 
months for shooting. 

" I am still a great lover of sport, and occasionally 
take part in a baseball game. I am a director of the 
Sterry Hunting and Fishing Club, located at the foot of 
Antelope Park, Colorado, eighteen miles above Wagon 
Wheel Gap on the Rio Grande River. The club con- 
sists of twenty-seven members, including the present 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 49 

governor of the State and other men prominent in politi- 
cal life. The plant consists of four cottages, dining 
room and kitchen fully equipped. It is at an elevation 
of ninety-five hundred feet above sea level. It is open 
from the first of July to the first of September. We are 
constantly in sight of snow upon the higher ranges. 
Mountain trout are as plentiful as could be desired, and 
there is lots of big game, such as mountain lion, bear, 
antelope, deer, and mountain sheep. The ladies usually 
accompany us. The latch string is out, and any mem- 
ber of '77 will receive a cordial welcome any time when 
the camp is open." 

Mr. Fuller married, March 8, 1882, Miss Clara 
Augusta Wilson, daughter of Hon. N. Wilson, of 
Orono, Maine, the ceremon}' being performed by Prof. 
John S. Sewall, of the Bangor Theological Seminary, 
formerly of Bowdoin College. The}^ have two children : 
Abbie Louise, born Julv 15, 1894, and Hide Wilson, 
born Dec. 2, 1896. 

David Dunlap Gilman. 

For several years after leaving college Mr. Oilman's 
health was such as entirely to forbid close application 
to any mental work, and so far as possible his time was 
given to outdoor work and the general superintendence 
of the farm in Brunswick, Maine. The effects of the 
sunstroke, suffered in 1875, lingered with him for 
nearly eight years, but the recovery, although slow, 
was radical and thorough, and since the publication of 
our last record in 1887, his health, then reported as 
firmly and completely reestablished, has continued uni- 
formly good. In the fall of 1883 he accepted a posi- 
tion as paymaster of the Cabot Manufacturing Company 
of Brunswick, a position which he has held continuously 
since that date, now nearly nineteen years. The Cabot 



50 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

is one of the largest cotton mills in Maine, having 
sixty-nine thousand spindles and one thousand six hun- 
dred and seventy-two looms in operation, and the pro- 
duction of sheetings and drills reaches an aggregate of 
fourteen million yards annually. 

A native of Brunswick, Mr. Oilman is actively identi- 
fied with all movements looking to the development 
and improvement of his native town, to the care of its 
public grounds, to the preservation of its historical sites 




and relics, and to the fostering of an intelligent public 
spirit in the community. He finds his recreation in 
rowing on the Androscoggin, but for the last four or five 
years his boat has had to divide its time with his bicycle. 
He has great enjoyment in bicycling, which he re- 
gards "as a most exhilarating and delightful form 
of exercise." 

Mr. Oilman reports himself a Republican in politics. 
He is not married. 



Bowcloin College, Class of '77. 51 

William Andrew Golden. 

Mr. Golden studied law in the office of the 
Hon. Thomas B. Reed, of Portland, Maine, and 
was admitted to the Cumberland bar, April 10, 
1878. For several years he practised his profession 
pretty steadily in Portland, although his health 
was never very rugged. His trouble took the form of 
epilepsy, and he has been a frequent sufferer from re- 
curring periods of this disease. About three years ago 
he was compelled to give up the practise of law entirely 
because of the mental strain and the confinement, and 
he opened a newspaper store in Portland. His mind, 
however, continued to be seriously affected, and in 
April, 1901, he was taken to the Asylum for the Insane, 
at Augusta, Maine. The physicians of the asylum do 
not regard his case as beyond treatment, and it is hoped 
that he will eventually be able to return to his family. 

Mr. Golden married, Sept. 10, 1888, Miss Josephine 
L. Graves, and they have two children : Harry Ayer, 
born Jan. 20, 1890, and Isabella Perry, born Oct. 23, 
1900. 

Joseph Knight Greene. 

The autumn after graduation Mr. Greene was 
principal of the high school, in Shirley, Mass. In 
December, 1877, he went to Des Moines, Iowa, where, 
with the exception of three months spent as principal of 
the high school in Lawler, Iowa, he read law in the 
office of Messrs. Parsons & Runnells until August, 1878, 
when he was admitted to the Iowa bar. In the fall of 
1878 he returned East and settled in Worcester, Mass., 
where he has since lived. For several months he was 
in the office of the Clerk of Courts for Worcester 
County, but in September, 1879, ^^^ opened an office 



52 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

for himself, and from that time has been engaged in the 
general practise of the law. 

In 1887 and 1888 he was Commissioner of Insolvency 
for Worcester County by appointment of Governor 
Ames, and for several years was an officer in his voting 
ward, but with these exceptions has not held public 
office. He has always been an active Republican, 
serving several years on the Republican City Com- 




mittee and frequently representing his party as a dele- 
gate to political conventions. He has been honored 
with nominations for various city and State offices by 
his party, but living in a Democratic district his honors 
have ceased with the nominations. He has taken a more 
or less active part in movements for the best interests of 
his city and State, having acted as attorney for the 
Massachusetts Temperance League and managed sev- 
eral campaigns in the interest of no-license. For sev- 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 53 

eral years he edited Solid Facts, a paper devoted to 
civic righteousness. 

Mr. Greene is a member of Trinity Methodist Episco- 
pal Church and has been an official of the church for 
twenty years and superintendent of the Sunday school 
for live years. He is also a member of the Methodist 
Social Union, and for a number of years has been a 
director in the Young Men's Chrisdan Association. 
He was one of the organizers of the Natives of Maine, 
an association of eight hundred of the natives of the 
Pine Tree State living in Worcester County. Of this 
society Mr. Greene was for ten years secretar}" and 
treasurer, for two years vice-president, and for two 
years president. He is a member of the Worcester 
County Bar and the Law Library Association. He is 
also connected with several fraternal or^ranizations, 
being a Past Grand of the Odd Fellows and having 
served for one year as Grand Captain General of the 
Grand Commandery of Massachusetts of the Knights 
of Malta, refusing further promotion. Of another 
organization he was chairman of the State Judiciary 
Committee and member of the National Judiciar}^ Com- 
mittee for some time. He has contributed to various 
publications from time to time, but has never published 
a book. In his younger days he was very fond of base- 
ball. Now he plays chess for indoor recreation, and 
whenever he can get time follows hunting and fishing 
with great enjoyment. 

Mr. Greene married, Dec. 12, 1889, Miss Frances 
Lillian Newton, of Worcester, and they have one child, 
Winthrop Stephenson, born May 16, 1891. 

William Chute Greene. 

For two terms in the year following graduation Mr. 
Greene served as principal of the high school at 



54 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 



Princeton, Maine. He then began the study of law 
with M. T. Ludden, Esq., of Lewiston, Maine, and 
was admitted to the bar in March, 1879. ^^^ May i, 
following, he opened an office at Mechanic Falls, 
Maine, with J. A. Roberts ('77), where he remained 
one year. In 1880 he removed to Boston, Mass., and 
in January, 1881, was admitted to the Suffolk bar. 
He practised in Boston with good success, and a grow- 
ing business for three years when, an especially favor- 




able opening presenting itself, he removed, in June, 
1884, to Sag Harbor, Long Island, N. Y., where he 
has since lived. On going to Sag Harbor he formed a 
partnership with George C. Ray nor, Esq., a Cornell 
graduate, under the firm name of Greene & Raynor, 
conducting also a branch oftice at Riverhead, N. Y, 
In 1889 the partnership with Mr. Raynor was dissolved, 
and since then Mr. Greene has continued the general 
practise of law alone in the courts of New York and in 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 55 

the United States District Court. He reports a steady 
and substantial increase in business with every year. 
He has also more or less to do with real estate, is 
trustee of the Sag Harbor Savings Bank, attorney for 
the Peconic National Bank and other corporations, 
trustee of the Oakland Cemetery Association, and 
attorney for the Law and Order Society. He has been 
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since 
college days, and during his residence in Sag Harbor 
has served as superintendent of the church Sunday 
school for twelve years, as president of the County 
Sunday School Association, as church treasurer and 
president of its Board of Trustees, and held other 
offices in connection with the church. He is also 
treasurer of the Sag Harbor Historical Society. 

Politically Mr. Greene has always been a Republican, 
and for several years served as chairman of the Re- 
publican Committee of his town, but has steadily re- 
fused to run for any office that would take him away 
from the practise of his profession. He has for years 
been a member of the Board of Education, and at his 
last reelection received the very unusual and gratifying 
compliment of a unanimous vote. 

"Some eleven years ago," Mr. Greene writes, "I 
built a house from which I have a fine view of water, 
hills, etc. It has a large lot, and I raise a good variety 
of fruit, berries, and flowers for ourselves and our 
friends. I have picked ripe raspberries and roses from 
our outdoor gardens this week [Nov. 21, 1901]. I live 
a busy life, but spend as many evenings at home as my 
duties will allow. We have a large library and try to 
know something of what has taken place in the past, 
and of what is going on in the present. Such outdoor 
recreation as I can get, aside from the garden, is found 
in yachting, tennis, and bicycling." 

Mr. Greene married, on June 6, 1888, Miss Sarah 



56 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

Eliza, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Cyrus Ripley, of 
Paris, Maine. They have no children. 

Serope Armenag Giirdjian. 

A PART of the year following graduation Mr. Giird- 
jian was a special student in chemistry with Professor 
Carmichael at Brunswick, delivering during the year at 
various places a number of addresses and -lectures upon 
the " Eastern Question," which was then prominent. 
In December, 1878, he sailed for Constantinople, Tur- 
key, with the intention of establishing an institution of 
learning of high grade in or near Constantinople. This 
purpose he did not accomplish, and in the spring of 1880 
he is believed to have made a short visit to this country, 
returning, however, to Constantinople to engage in gen- 
eral business. It is greatly to be regretted that it is 
impossible to give any connected account of his experi- 
ences from this time forward for many years. He 
wrote to no member of the class, nor, so far as known, 
to any one in this country. What was, however, un- 
doubtedly one episode in his career figured somewhat 
prominently in the American papers in the autumn of 
1890 and gave him a sort of impersonal notoriety. Of 
the several despatches and accounts then published, the 
following seems to be the most complete and circum- 
stantial. It is taken from the Portland Advertiser of 
Oct. 28, 1890. 

" Bowdoin men who were students at the college dur- 
ing the time of President Grant's last administration 
will be particularly interested in the despatches relating 
to the outrageous treatment of an American citizen in 
Constantinople. The first information was that this 
man had been arrested at night and thrust into prison 
on suspicion of complicity in the Armenian revolution- 
ary movement. It was said that he was a graduate of 
Bowdoin College, and went to Turkey during the ad- 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 57 

ministration of President Hayes, to found an American 
college, but the project fell through, and he had since 
remained in Constantinople. After his arrest he was 
allowed to communicate with the American minister, 
Mr. Hirsch, and was released on condition of standing 
trial. Mr. Hirsch protested against the violation of an 
American citizen's right of domicile, demanded satisfac- 
tion and the punishment of the officer responsible for 
the arrest, and declared that he would not produce the 
accused until informed of the nature of the charge. On 
this it was represented to Mr. Hirsch, as reported, that 
the accused had engraved a seal for a secret Armenian 
committee. Proof was then produced that the man 
knew nothing about the art of engraving, but had been 
acting as the agent of Armenian manufacturers of photo- 
graphic apparatus. The Sultan's government expressed 
regrets, but Minister Hirsch held out for more substantial 
satisfaction. There the matter stood at last accounts 
from Constantinople, with the feathers of the American 
eagle still ruffled and fire in his eye at the outrage. The 
name of the abused American was not given in the Con- 
stantinople despatch, and inquiry at the State department 
fails to reveal his identity. The department, however, 
has in its possession the names of several American citi- 
zens residing in Turkey, and said to have been connected 
with the Armenian movement. The names of two are 
Novigan ( ?) and Glirdjian, and it was thought at the 
department that Giirdjian might be the man referred to. 
Serope Armenag Giirdjian was the only Armenian who 
has been educated at Bowdoin. He graduated in the 
class of 1877, and being the only Turk ever in the in- 
stitution was a character of much interest." 

When the preparation of the present report was un- 
dertaken it was determined to make every effort to get 
into communication with Mr. Giirdjian. He had been 
seen by Mr. Dana Estes, of Boston, in Athens, Greece, 
in the summer of 1900. A letter was accordingly sent 
him to the general address of " Athens, Greece," fol- 
lowed by other inquiries and letters forwarded through 
the secretary of the United States Legation at Athens, 



58 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

and also through the United States Consul at Athens. 
These efforts, in time, proved successful, and on Nov. 
15, 1901, Mr. Giirdjian wrote as follows, dating his 
letter from " No. 24 Hermes Street, Athens, Greece " : 

" I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the 
trouble you took in finding me out, your prodigal 
brother. I received your letter written to the secretary 
of the American Legation here, inquiring about me, 
with a note from him, some eight or ten days ago, and 
only yesterday have I received your letter directed to 
me and addressed simply Athens, and it is a wonder 
that I did receive your letter to me so directed, because 
everything here is Greek, government and all. 

"When I received your letter through the Legation 
I was sick in bed, having returned from a mining ex- 
pedition in the interior provinces of Greece in a very 
bad condition. I am better now, though not able to do 
much writing or mental work. It is so kind of you to 
try to trace me ; you might have given me up for lost. 
But for me ! I have never given up my adopted coun- 
try, its institutions, associations, my alma mater, the 
thought of which all have been my only consolation 
through all my wanderings in the East. 

" My life, since I left Bowdoin, has been very much 
diversified, and often a life dragged on full of trials, 
sufferings, and anxiety and tears ; a life full of untold 
— and never-to-be-told-fully — stories. What must 
have the fates against me to take me away so soon after 
I left college, while in my adopted country I might 
have been a useful (according to my abilities) member 
of the great republic? That I may be an eye-witness 
of the sufferings and wrongs done to my native coun- 
trymen, the Armenians ! That I may observe the Spar- 
tan struggle of that poor and neglected people for lib- 
erty, and be absolutely powerless to raise a helping 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 59 

hand ! That I may gaze on the rivers of blood running 
throughout the whole Armenia by the fiendish orders 
of the Great Assassin, encouraged by the Christian 
monarchs of Europe I That I may come in actual con- 
tact with the greatest house of prostitution in the world, 
called, in retined language, European Diplomacy, 
know its bloody machinations, brutal selfishness and 
criminal indifference towards a poor, neglected, and 
bleeding people I 

" Enough. I am not able to write more. I beg you 
to write me soon. I will write you again. Please give 
my best respects to Mr. Estes, and other inquiring 
friends. 

" Again thanking 3'ou for your kind letters, I remain, 
very faithfullv, 

" Your friend and classmate, 

" SeROPE a. GiJRDJIAX." 

Immediately upon receipt of this communication a 
long letter was despatched to Mr. Giirdjian, begging 
him for fuller details and a more connected account of 
his experiences for use in this report. The letter was 
addressed to 24 Hermes Street, Athens, and sent by 
registered mail, but no reply has come to hand. The 
Greek postal service is not above suspicion, as Mr. 
Giirdjian intimates, and it may be to its door that we 
should bring our grievance for having no fuller informa- 
tion for this record. 

Frank Hobart Hargraves. 

Directly after graduation Mr. Hargraves became a 
partner with his father in the manufacture of woolen 
goods at North Shapleigh, Maine. In addition to the 
Shapleigh woolen mill, a company was organized in 
1879 ^"^ ^ "^^^' plant leased at West Buxton, Maine, 



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Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 



of which Mr. Hargraves became the agent. This busi- 
ness was continued with varying success undl 1895. A 
Saco River freshet at that time so badly damaged the 
plant that the lease was terminated. In 1900, however, 
Mr. Hargraves purchased the West Buxton plant, re- 
paired it and put it into operation, and has since been in 
the active business of woolen manufacture at that place. 
One of the earlier episodes of his business life was the 
interest he took, very soon after leaving college, in devel- 




oping the possibilities of a small "leather-board" mill. 
" I learned the business," he writes, " and sold out the 
plant with its possibilities still alluringly ahead. 

" Meanwhile," he continues, "West Buxton had be- 
come my home. I had become interested in other 
business ventures in that locality and identified with the 
affairs that make up a part of country life. I was pres- 
ident of the Savings Bank, also of an insurance com- 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 61 

pany of quite considerable proportions, and of a tele- 
phone company that keeps an open door to the outside 
world — not affairs of such importance that their men- 
tion can bring a charge of egotism. 

" Politically I am a Republican and have tilled the 
usual town offices. I was a representative to the State 
Legislature one term, in 1891, and two terms as Senator 
in 1897 and 1899. I was a member of the Railroad 
Committee in 1891 and chairman of the Finance Com- 
mittee in 1897 and 1899. 

" Recreation comes principally from short trips, 
which are taken as occasions present themselves. Club 
life in the country may be said to be limited. The 
fraternal orders approach it. I am a member of the 
Masonic Order, the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Com- 
mandery. 

"On Sept. 28, 1892, I married Miss Nellie Maria 
Lord, of West Buxton. We have two boys : Hobart 
Lord, born Aug. 8, 1894, and Gordon Swett, born 
March 10, 1897. College life to them is far in the fu- 
ture, but we expect Bowdoin to be their alma mater." 

Charles Harring-ton. 

Dr. Harrington w^rites : "On leaving Bowdoin, 
at the end of my freshman year, I entered the class of 
'78 at Harvard and graduated with it. Under the 
elective system I had taken very largel}" courses in the 
sciences, and during m}^ senior year had availed my- 
self of the opportunity to listen to the lectures to the 
first-year medical students, having an idea that I 
might, perhaps, be allowed to take the examina- 
tions, and thus do two years' work in one, and gain a 
year. On graduation I found, however, that my time 
thus spent could not be counted as a 3'ear of medical 
study, and I therefore looked about to find some method 



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Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 



of putting in some of my extra time. I was fortunate 
enough to be invited to act as private assistant to the 
professor of chemistry, and finding the work congenial, 
I continued in that position for two years, in the mean- 
time carrying on my regular work. In my third year 
in the Medical School I was fortunate enough to be 
chosen, a year ahead of the time when my class was 
eligible to hospital appointments, interne on the medi- 
cal side at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and, 




though I had no intention of practising medicine, I was 
glad to accept the position for the experience it would 
give me. Thus, in my third year, I carried on the 
regular medical study and the work of an interne, so 
that when I graduated in 1881 in medicine, I received 
also my certificate of service in the hospital. 

" Then I went abroad and matriculated at the Uni- 
versity of Leipsic, where I worked a semester under 
the professor of hygiene. From there I went to the 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 6^ 

University of Strasburg and worked in physiological 
chemistry and pharmacology. Then I matriculated at 
Munich and devoted my entire time to hygiene, under 
Professor Von Pettenkofer, and on returning home I was 
appointed, in 1883, assistant in chemistry in the Har- 
vard Medical School, and shortly afterward was made 
chemist to the Massachusetts State Board of Health. 
In 1884 I was made instructor in hygiene, but retained 
my assistantship in chemistr}^ From the time of my 
appointment with the State Board I served nine years, 
the work being wholly in connection with the statute re- 
lating to the adulteration of foods. In 1889 I received 
the appointment of Inspector of Milk for the city of 
Boston, a position which I still hold. 

" After some years' connection with the Medical 
School I was appointed instructor in materia medica 
and hygiene, and dropped my assistantship in chemis- 
try. About four years ago, when hygiene was made a 
part of the required work of the school, I ceased giving 
instruction in materia medica and was made assistant 
professor of hygiene." 

Dr. Harrington published in 1901, through Lea 
Brothers & Co., Philadelphia, "A Manual of Practical 
Hygiene," royal octavo, pp. 729, with twelve plates 
and one hundred and five engravings, and he has been 
a constant contributor to medical journals ever since 
his graduadon. He takes no prominent part in polidcal 
acdvities, "but itis my custom," he says, " to exercise 
annually the privilege of cidzenship, and I am quite 
likely to be with the losing side." He finds his recre- 
adon in farming, " with special reference to the breed- 
ing of ' tame, villadc fowl.' " 

He is a member of the Union Club, St. Botolph 
Club, Papyrus Club (of which he has been president), 
Harvard Union, The Strollers (New York), Society 
of Colonial Wars, Naturalists Club, Rural Club, Mass- 



64 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

achusetts Medical Society, Boston Societ}^ of Medical 
Improvement, Boston Society of the Medical Sciences, 
Massachusetts Medical Benevolent Society, Massachu- 
setts Medico-Legal Society, American Public Health 
Association, American Chemical Society, and Boston 
Natural History Society. 

Dr. Harrington married, Feb. 25, 1884, Miss M. 
Josephine Jones, of Boston, and they have three chil- 
dren : Charles Pratt, born March 5, 1885 ; Marguerita 
Carillo, born March 2, 1888; and Eugene Saudray, 
born Nov. 3, 1891. Charles expects to enter Har- 
vard this year, Marguerita is fitting for Bryn Mawr, 
and Eugene is about to enter a preparatory^ school 
and will fit for Harvard. 



George Arthur Holbrook. 

In the autumn of 1877, Mr. Holbrook entered the 
Protestant Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, 
Mass., where he pursued the full course, and was gradu- 
ated in June, 1880. He was ordained to the diaconate 
of the Episcopal Church at St. Luke's Cathedral, Port- 
land, Maine, June 27, 1880, and at once became assistant 
minister of St. Paul's Church, Erie, Pa. On May 24, 
1881, he was advanced to the priesthood by the Rt. 
Rev. G. F. Seymour, bishop of Springfield, in Trinity 
Memorial Church, Warren, Pa., and in August of the 
same year he was made rector of St. Paul's Church and 
parish in Bellevue, Ohio. After a service of two years 
in this position he accepted an invitation to become 
rector of St. Paul's Church and parish in Brunswick, 
Maine, over which he was installed Aug. 12, 1883. 
Here he remained nearly five years, removing on 
Jan. II, 1888, to become rector of St. Peter's parish in 
Ashtabula, Ohio. He continued at Ashtabula undl 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 65 

Feb. 4, 1891, during his occupancy of this position 
building a very pretty and well-appointed rectory. 

On Feb. 8, 1891, he became rector of St. Barnabas 
parish, Troy, N. Y., his present incumbency. He is 
now in the twelfth year of his service in this parish, and 
during this time he lias built tliere a very beautiful 
Gothic church, costing thirty thousand dollars, all of 
which was secured by Mr. Holbrook, except about live 
thousand dollars raised by former rectors. This church 




II! 



has been furnished with new organ, handsome stone 
altar, rood-screen, etc., and on the year following the 
opening of the church a new parish house, thoroughly 
equipped for parochial work, was erected at a cost of 
ten thousand dollars. 

Mr. Holbrook writes: "My life has been a very 
busy, but not eventful one," and he finds his recreation 
in philately, and in the study of English literature and 
history. 



66 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

He married, at Erie, Pa., Oct. 11, 1881, Miss Lucia 
Austin of that city. They have no children. 

Phineas Henry Ingalls. 

Dr. Ingalls was graduated at the College of Phy- 
sicians and Surgeons, New York, March 12, 1880, 
having previously been connected with the Maine Gen- 
eral Hospital, in Portland, during a part of 1879, '^'^^ 
acted as assistant to the professor of anatomy in the 
Maine Medical School, session of 1879. ^^ received 
the degree of A. B, out of course, by vote of the board, 
on Commencement Day, July 12, 1882. On April i, 
1880, he was appointed to a position on the surgical 
house staff of the Woman's Hospital, 49th Street and 
Fourth Avenue, New York City, and a year later he was 
promoted to be chief house surgeon of that institution. 
In the spring of 1882 he removed to Hartford, Conn., 
and succeeded to the practise of Dr. Mathew D. 
Mann, the eminent gynecologist, who had accepted a 
professorship in the Buffalo Medical College. 

Since settling in Hartford Dr. Ingalls has been 
closely occupied with a professional practise, which has 
shown a gratifying growth with every year. He 
makes a specialty of diseases peculiar to women, and 
his practise is largely in operations and consultation 
work in Hartford and adjoining towns. It is prob- 
ably the largest gynaecological practise enjoyed by 
any physician in Connecticut. 

In 1884 Dr. Ingalls was appointed visiting gynav 
cologist at the Hartford Hospital, and entered with 
enthusiasm into that branch of the work there. He 
began to perform operations in the abdominal cavity 
which before that time had been unfortunate in their 
results in that city. By careful attention to technique 
and the finer details of the work, he soon brought that 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 



67 



department of the hospital to a point where its work 
will compare favorably with that of any hospital in the 
country. Most of his work is surgical and he performs 
about two hundred operations a year. 

In 1891 Dr. Ingalls performed the operation that, 
without doubt, did more to make his name prominent 
in connection with this branch of surgical work than 
any previous or subsequent performance. At that time 
he accomplished successfully the very difficult and 




dangerous operation known to the medical world as 
Caesarian Section. It is rarely attempted, and is re- 
sorted to only in the most desperate cases. A coolness 
and nerve are required which few practitioners, es- 
pecially among the younger members of the profession, 
can command. In this case Dr. Ingalls was entirely 
successful. The case attracted much attention and 
was extensively commented upon in the newspapers. 



68 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

In 1894 Dr. Ingalls was appointed by Mayor 
Brainard to the Board of Police Commissioners, and he 
served there with faithfulness and ability. He was 
chairman of the Building Committee which erected the 
new police station. It was largely through his efforts 
that the new building was started, and he took a deep 
personal interest in its construction. 

In December, 1899, Dr. Ingalls was made one of the 
medical directors of the v^tna Life Insurance Com- 
pany. This work which occupies a portion of each 
day, in addition to a large operating service at the 
Hartford Hospital and an exacting private practise, 
gives about all the work one man can take care of. 
He is a member of the Hartford Club, the Republican 
Club, the Hartford Golf Club, the Colonial Club, the 
Sons of the American Revolution and the Society of 
Colonial Wars, and is a member and prominent sup- 
porter 6f Christ Church. He belongs also to the city, 
county, and State medical societies, but perhaps his 
greatest distinction in this direction is his membership 
in the American Gynaecological Society, an association 
of specialists limited to a membership of one hundred. 
He was elected to this society in 1890 and is the only 
member in his State. 

Among his more important medical papers are : 
"Non-Surgical Treatment of Anteflexion," New 
2"ork Medical Journal, March 27, 1886; "Damages 
of Parturition and their Repair," Proceedings of Con- 
necticut Medical Society, 1886; "Uterine Cancer," 
Proceedings of Connecticut Medical Society, 1889 ; 
" Sloughing Fibroids of the Uterus," Proceedings of 
American Gynsecological Societ}^ 1891 ; " Successful 
Case of Ceesarian Section," American Journal of 
Obstetrics, August, 1892. 

In 1883 Dr. Ingalls joined the First Regiment 
Connecticut National Guard as assistant surgeon and 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 69 

became much interested in the welfare of the local 
militia. In 1885 he was made adjutant, and in 1890 he 
was appointed on General Watson's staff as brigade in- 
spector. He was enthusiastic in military affairs and 
rendered valuable service to the State. He resigned in 
1892 only because of the pressure of other duties. 

Dr. Ingalls married, May 13, 1885, Miss Mary 
Helen Beach, daughter of the late J. Watson Beach, 
of Hartford. They have had one child, a son Phineas, 
born June 9, 1886, who died in infancy. 



Charles Ecrbert Kniorht. 

After graduation Mr. Knight was employed as as- 
sistant in the office of the clerk of courts for Lincoln 
County in Wiscasset, Maine, occupying his leisure time 
with law study. He was admitted to the bar in 1879, 
and opened an office in Wiscasset the same year, where 
he practised for some time. His father's health, how- 
ever, not being good, Mr. Knight gradually abandoned 
the practise of the law, and in 1882 joined in partnership 
with his father for carrying on the grain and grocery 
business which had been established in 1846. Since 
his father's death he has continued the business alone, 
with gratifying success. He now owns the Franklin 
Block on Main Street in which he occupies two stores, 
one store being finished in steel walls and ceiling. His 
trade is both wholesale and retail. 

Besides belonging to the Masonic order, Mr. Knight 
is also a member of the Wiscasset Fire Society, which 
was instituted in 1801 for mutual protection of its mem- 
bers in case of fire, but which has become a social or- 
ganization with membership limited to thirty. It holds 
quarterly meetings, has a good fund, and does a great 
deal in looking out for the welfare of the town. 



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F'or outdoor recreation Mr. Knight takes to the water. 
He writes : " I have a Palmer launch, twenty-one feet 
long, and with a three horse-power gasoline engine 
that I ran over two thousand miles during the summer 
of 1901. The speed of the boat is about eight miles an 
hour. I have no trouble whatever in running the en- 
gine and enjoy this better than any other sport or recre- 
ation I ever engaged in. It is my second launch. 
We are about fifteen miles from Boothbay Harbor and 




the ocean, and we have in the Sheepscot River prob- 
ably as fine a place to sail a launch as exists in the 
world." 

Mr. Knight married, June 10, 1880, Miss Carrie 
Baker Dodge of Wiscasset, and has a son, James 
Monroe, born Aug. 10, 1881. The son has a decided 
bent toward mechanical and electrical work, and like 
his father is a natural musician, playing the mandolin, 
the guitar, and the slide trombone. 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 71 

George Thomas Little. 

Mr. Little passed the year following graduation in 
European travel. In the fall of 1878 he became instructor 
in LaUn in Thayer Academy, Braintree, Mass., Prof. 
J. B. Sewall (Bowdoin, '48), principal, where he re- 
mained four years. In August, 1882, he accepted an 
appointment as instructor in Latin in Bowdoin College, 
and at the next commencement was elected College 
Professor of the same department, and assistant librarian, 
with full charge of the library, owing to the absence of 
Professor Johnson in Europe. In June, 1885, he was 
appointed, at his own request, librarian and assistant in 
rhetoric, with the intent of giving the larger part of his 
time to the first position. He has continued in the posi- 
tion of librarian to the present time, now a period of 
seventeen years, doing work of the highest value and 
importance to the college in the general administration 
of the library. 

Mr. Little writes: " My residence and business have 
remained unchanged since the last report. In regard 
to the former I may mention the fact that in 1887 I pur- 
chased the east side of the double house so many years 
the home of Prof. A. S. Packard and Prof. William 
Smythe, and have since occupied it. The months of 
December, 1887, and January to April, 1888, I spent in 
western North Carolina on account of ill health. Thrice 
my summer vacations have taken me out of the country, 
to England and the Continent in 1890, with my wife and 
a party of ladies; in 1896, to British Columbia, where 
my friend and companion, Philip S. Abbott, Harvard, 
'90, lost his life in an unsuccessful attempt to ascend 
Mt. Lefroy ; in 1901, to the same region where, under 
the leadership of a Swiss guide, our party made several 
' first ' ascents of peaks in the Canadian Rockies. 

"In 1888 I was relieved of all work in the depart- 



72 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

ment of rhetoric, and in 1894, of most of the duties per- 
taining to the office of secretary of the Faculty, which I 
had held for ten years. With the development of the 
library incident to new methods of instruction in history, 
political science, and the languages, the position of 
librarian has become more important and more labori- 
ous than in our undergraduate days. Instead of being 
open only 500 hours a year, the library is now open 
3,700 hours; in place of an annual appropriation from 




the Boards of $300, there is now one of $3,000; the 
book funds have increased from $2,000 to $25,000; the 
circulation of books has doubled, while a very extensive 
use of ' reserved books ' in the library itself had then no 
counterpart. The reading room is also under the charge 
of the librarian." 

Mr. Little is a member of the Maine Historical So- 
ciety ; the Minnesota Historical Society ; the Pejepscot 
Historical Society ; the Maine Genealogical Society ; 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 73 

the American Library Association, of which he was 
recorder for several years, and since then member of 
the finance committee ; the Maine Library Association, 
holding all kinds of offices ; the Massachusetts Library 
Club ; the Eastern Maine Library Club ; is local secre- 
tary of the Palestine Exploration Fund ; a life member 
of the Public Library Associations of Brunswick and of 
Auburn, Maine ; a member of the corporation of the 
Central Maine General Hospital ; a life member of 
the Appalachian Mountain Club, and a member of the 
American Alpine Club, which is just being organized 
for mountain and arctic exploration. This by no means 
completes the list, of which Mr. Little modestly says 
that ''the societies mentioned are purposely made numer- 
ous that the different sides of my quiet life might ap- 
pear. I have done little for any of them, but I have 
done something, I think, for nearly all besides the mere 
payment of money. I have really been interested in 
them." 

Mr. Little published, in 1882, a volume of 620 
pages, entitled " Descendants of George Little, who 
came to Newbury, Massachusetts, 1640." He com- 
piled and published, in 1883, " Exercises in Latin 
Prose Composition, based on the De Senecttite and 
De Amicitia of Cicero"; and, in 1884, '^ "Note 
Book for the Study of Latin Literature," both manuals 
for the use of his classes. He edited, in 1886, " A 
Memorial of Alpheus Spring Packard," the venerated 
professor at Bowdoin, and in the year following issued 
a pamphlet entitled " Additions and Corrections to the 
History of Bowdoin College." In 1894 he published 
" General Catalogue of Bowdoin College and the Medi- 
cal School of Maine, 1 794-1894, with an Historical 
Sketch," and in 1899, " Obituary Record of Bowdoin 
College for the Decade ending i June, 1899," octavo, 
445 pages. 



74 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

As an active librarian Mr, Little has contributed to 
periodicals many articles bearing upon or suggested by 
his professional work, among which may be mentioned : 
" What Should Be Done for an Old Library with 
Limited Income? " Library Journal., 1885 ; "A Charg- 
ing System for Small Libraries," Library Journal., 
1886; "Helping Inquirers," Library Joitrnal, 1895; 
" Special Training for College Librarians," Library 
Journal, 1898 ; " The Library and the Small College," 
Library Journal, 1899; and "School and College 
Libraries," a paper prepared for the World's Library 
Congress of 1893, and printed in the " Report of the 
United States Commissioner of Education, 1892-93," 
pages 916 to 938. He has also furnished book reviews 
for the Nation, and college correspondence for the New 
7'ork Tribune, the Congregationalist, and other papers. 
The honorary degree of Litt. D. was conferred upon 
him by Bowdoin College at the centennial commence- 
ment, 1894. 

Mr. Little says : " I have always voted the Republican 
ticket, and count myself a member of that party. Have 
held no political office, but was appointed by Governor 
Powers to the State Library Commission in May, 1899, 
and have since that time served continuously as chairman 
of the Board." 

His recreation, as all the class know, is mountain 
climbing. 

He married, Dec. 18, 1884, Miss Lillie Thayer 
Wright, daughter of George Homer and Sarah 
(Weeks) Lane, of Braintree, and they have four chil- 
dren : Rachel Thayer, born Oct. 2, 1885 ; Ruth Bliss, 
born April 19, 1887 ; George Tappan, born April 28, 
1891 ; and Noel Charlton, born Dec. 25, 1895. The 
two girls are preparing for college, but undecided as 
to which one they will enter. 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 75 

Orlando Marrett Lord. 

For the first twelve years after graduation Mr. 
Lord was engaged in the active work of teaching. 
During a part of 1878 he was principal of the high 
school in South Thomaston, Maine. He was then 
chosen principal of the South Berwick Academy at 
South Berwick, Maine, which position he retained three 
years, the academy increasing largely under his adminis- 
tration. In October, 1881, he resigned to accept the 
principalship of the high school in Biddeford, Maine, 
where he stayed one year, and then became master of 
a grammar school in Portsmouth, N. H. for one year. 
In October, 1883, he was elected principal of the Butler 
Grammar School, in Portland, Maine, a position which 
he held until 1889. In May of that year he was 
elected Superintendent of Schools of the city of Port- 
land, an office which by annual reelection he has re- 
tained to the present time. 

He married, Aug. 22, 1888, Miss Caroline Edna 
Jenkins of Portland, and has a son, William Mason 
Bradley, born April 5, 1895. 

Frank Josselyn Lynde. 



Born at Bangor, Maine, Oct. 2, 1855. 

Died at Old Orchard Beach, Maine, Oct. 4, 1 



Shortly after graduation Mr. Lynde became a clerk 
in the apothecary and drug store of F. T. Meaher & Co., 
corner of Congress and Preble Streets, Portland, Maine. 
In September, 1878, he was admitted to partnership in 
that firm. During the summer months the firm had 
established a branch at Old Orchard Beach, and on the 
morning of Oct. 4, as the summer season was nearly 



76 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

over, he had gone to die beach to close the business of 
the branch store. This was completed, and he was 
waiting at the railroad stadon for a Portland train. 
The train arrived, and while he was finishing a con- 
versation with some friends it began to move out of the 
stadon. Seeing the cars were in motion he bade his 
friends good-by, and took hold of the hand-rail of the 
last car to step aboard. In some way his foot slipped. 
A passenger tried to catch him and draw him upon the 
platform, but ineffectually. He fell upon the track be- 
tween the two rear cars, and the last car passed over 
his body above the waist, causing instant death. Dur- 
ing the two years of his business life in Portland, Mr. 
L3nide had formed a very wide circle of friends, by 
whom he was held in the highest esteem and respect, 
and upon whom the news of his sudden death fell with 
the shock of a personal bereavement. 

George Henry Marquis. 

In October, 1877, ^^'- Marquis entered the Boston 
University Law School, remaining through the academic 
year, when he continued study in the office of Clarence 
Hale, Esq., of Portland, Maine, until his admission to 
the Cumberland bar at the January term, 1880. In June 
following he opened an office for the practise of law in 
the Centennial Block, 95 Exchange Street, Portland, 
where he remained in practise until April i, 1885. The 
attractions of the West then prevailed and he started for 
Dakota. April 10, 1885, he formed a partnership at Clear 
Lake, So. Dak., with T. E. Sanborn, Esq., a graduate 
of the Boston University Law School in the class of 1878, 
who had already acquired a good practise in the then 
territory. The firm of Sanborn and Marquis, in con- 
nection with their work as attorneys and counselors, 
did a good business in negotiating guaranteed first mort- 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 77 

gage loans on Dakota farm property, and also main- 
tained a general real estate and collection agency. This 
partnership ran on for several years. Since its dissolu- 
tion Mr. Marquis has continued business alone, devodng 
his time to the strict practise of the law and abandoning 
entirely the real estate and loan branches of the busi- 
ness. Politically he finds himself of late years in 
general sympathy with the Republican party, but he is 
" not in politics."' He is city attorney for the city of 
Clear Lake. 

In the fall of 1901 he published through the Abbey 
Press, 114 Fifth Avenue, New York, a story entitled 
" Fairview's Mystery." The publisher's announcement 
describes it as "a story of Dakota told by a Dakota 
lawyer. There is a mysterious disappearance, an arrest 
of one suspected of murder, an examination in commit- 
ting magistrate's court, a discharge of the defendant, an 
appeal to Judge Lynch, a thrilling scene when the pros- 
ecuting attorney appears and saves an innocent man 
from the fury of an excited mob, and finally a solution 
of the mystery. All is told in an easy, natural manner, 
witho.it attempt at scene painting or flowery description, 
and the book is intended for the perusal of attorneys, 
w^ho will find it entertaining and will be inclined to 
attempt to solve the mystery before reading the conclud- 
ing chapter in which the same is explained and solved." 

Mr. Marquis married, Nov. 17, 1886, Miss Phebe 
Harriet Kelsev, of Goodwin, Dak., and they have six 
children, three boys and three girls, " and they com- 
pose," he writes, " a large per cent, of my assets. They 
are Sydney, born Aug. 24, 1887 ; Fanny, born June 
21, 1889; Violet, born Jan 5, 1891 : Julian Seward, 
born Aug. 16, 1892 : Carlyle, born Sept. 30, 1896; and 
Thelma, born Sept. 7, 1899. Four of them are attend- 
ing our local schools and may in time enter Brookings 
Agricultural College, at Brookings, So. Dak. We en- 



78 Bowdoiii College, Class ol" '77. 

joy splendid heallh, and, consetiuenlly, are not a source 
of n-cnerous iiu-oinc to the medical profession.'' 

Sciinucl Applcton Melcher. 

Thjc year alter <jjraduation Mr. Melcher taught at 
Greenville, Maine, and at Webster, Mass., and the 
follovvino- year in Boothbay, Maine. In January, 
1881, he became principal of the high school in 
O.vford, Mass., remaining until April, 1884, when he 
resigned to accejit an apjiointment as principal of the 
high school in Whitinsville, Mass. Whitinsville is 
the central village in the town of Northbridge, and 
here Mr. Melcher has continued to the present time, 
being most jileasantly situated, within a few miles of 
Worcester, and within easy railroad distance of Boston. 

In 1888 he was elected also Superintendent of 
Schools for the town of Northbridge, a position in 
which he has been retained by successive reelections. 
For the past fourteen years, tiierefore, he has had the 
double duties of High School l'*rincijial and Superinten- 
dent of Schools. Ilis work in Northbridge has been 
eminently successful. In almost every annual report 
the School Committee have taken special pains gen- 
erously to recognize the value of his service. In their 
latest report, for the year ending Dec. 31, 1901, they 
say, '' For fourteen 3'ears we have been able to retain 
the services of Mr. S. A. Melcher as principal and 
superintendent. With untiring zeal and energy he has 
successfully labored to place our schools in the first 
rank of the public schools of the Commonwealth, 
Eflicient supervision, faithful teachers, and liberal 
appropriations have made the Northbridge schools what 
they are to-day." 

In i8qi Mr. Melcher was elected to the presidency 
of the Worcester County Teachers' Association, and, 



I^owdoin College, Class of '77 



79 



later, to that of the Massaehusetts Superintendents' 
Assoeiation. I le has published many articles in edu- 
cational pul-)lication,s, but they have been, in the main, 
of professional interest only. 

" I am able," he writes, " to unite pleasure with 
business by usin<( the wheel in my daily work, and so 
the limitations of my position together with considera- 
ble natural inclination have made wheeling my favorite 
recreation. Last summer, determined that our prophet 




should not be without honor in his own class, I recreated 
in naval construction at Brunswick. A small sailing 
canoe is thus available for any member of '77 who feels 
like daring the dangers of the Androscoggin during the 
reunion season." 

Mr. Melcher is a member of the Society of Colonial 
Wars and the Society of Mayflower Descendants. He 
married, April 3, i<S<S4, Miss Julia Ilarwood, of Oxford, 



8o Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

and they have two children : Lucy Harwood, born 
Jan. 10, 1885, ^"<^ Elizabeth Appleton, born Feb. 13, 
1887. Miss Lucy Harwood Melcher has been admitted 
to Smith College and expects to enter in the fall of 
1902. 



Edward Clarence Metcalf. 



Born at Brunswick, Maine, April 11, 1857. 
Died at Newport, R. L, July 8, 1880. 



Soon after his graduation Mr. Metcalf found em- 
ployment as assistant engineer in Newport, R. L, with 
the eminent sanitary engineer, Col George E. Waring, 
Jr., where he remained two years. During this time he 
superintended professional work at Cumberland Mills, 
Maine, Irvington, N. Y., New York City, Long Branch, 
N. J., Stockbridge, Beverly, and South Framingham, 
Mass., Bridgeport, Conn,, and other places. In 
January, 1880, he went to Memphis, Tenn., as engineer 
in charge of the sewerage of that city. The great 
mental strain attending the supervision of this im- 
portant work, together with the unfavorable climate, 
was more than his naturally strong constitution could 
bear, and he was taken down with malarial fever near 
the middle of May, just previous to the closing up of 
work for the season. He was confined to his room in 
Memphis for about two weeks, when, being much im- 
proved in health, though still weak, he started, June i, 
for New England by way of the Mississippi River and 
the Great Lakes. While on his way North he took 
cold and suffered a relapse of the fever, from which he 
never rallied, but passed away July 8, in less than two 
weeks after reaching Newport. 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77- 8i 

Frank Asa Mitchell. 

For a few months following graduation Mr. Mitchell 
was civil engineer on the Portland & Ogdensburg 
Railroad, and during the winter of 1877-78 was princi- 
pal of the high school at Harwich, Cape Cod, Mass. 
On Aug. I, 1878, he went into partnership with his 
father, Mr. Asa C. Mitchell, in the drug and stationer}^ 
business at Bellows Falls, Vt., but in 1881 removed to 
Glens Falls, N. Y , where he continued in the same 
business, becoming jiroprietor of the City Drug Store, 
90 Glen Street In the spring of 1883, upon the death 
of ills father, he returned to Bellows Falls, and, form- 
ing a partnership with his brother under the name of 
Mitchell Brothers, continued the business, dealing in 
drugs, books, stationery, and artists' materials. Mere 
he remained three years, when poor health obliged him 
to seek a change, and in the fall of 1886 he " went to 
Dakota for a hunting trip, and passed the winter there, 
deriving both health and pleasure therefrom." 

" In March, 1887," he writes, " I accepted position 
with a wholesale and retail dru^j lirm in Marsiialltown, 
Iowa, but remained only three months, when I was of- 
fered and accepted a position witli tlie Buckley & 
Douglass Lumber Company, of Manistee, Mich., be- 
coming manager of the general store and Purchasing 
Agent for the company. This concern operated a large 
saw-mill of the most improved type, which ran night 
and day. Later on it constructed one of the largest 
salt blocks in the world, producing tvventy-Hve hundred 
barrels of salt a day. In 1888 it began the construc- 
tion of a standard gauge railroad, known as the Man- 
istee & North-Eastern, for the purpose of handling a 
vast amount of logs of its own and of other lumber 
firms, and also for doing a general railroad business. 
I was made Purchasing x\gent of this road, buying all 



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Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 



the supplies, material, and equipment used in its con- 
struction and operation. The main line now extends 
from Manistee to Traverse City, seventy miles, with nu- 
merous short branches. Two longer branches, now under 
construction, will raise its total mileage to two hundred 
miles. I was made General Freight and Passenger 
Agent of this road in April, 1891, and have since de- 
voted my entire attention to the Traffic Department. 
The road is thoroughly modern in every respect, well 




built, and equipped with up-to-date passenger and 
freight cars and locomotives. It is now running eight 
passenger trains a day, and its record as a ' bread- 
winner ' is second to no railroad in Michigan. Although 
its cost up to the present time exceeds two million 
dollars it enjoys the distinction of never having issued 
a bond. Every dollar of its stock is held by its original 
incorporators. In this respect it is truly sui generis. 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 83 

"As to the general railroad situation I am not favor- 
able to the combinations and consolidations which are 
now the order of the day. In them I see higher rates 
and poorer service for the public in general and oppres- 
sion for such small railroads as insist upon retaining 
their individuality. Competition is the only thing that 
has kept the big roads in check as to rates and has 
compelled them to give the public good train service. 
Competition being done away with the inevitable result 
will be an advance in freight charges, a diminished pas- 
senger service, and cheaper cars to travel in. Combi- 
nations will make much money for the big capitalists, 
some of which will come through lessening the cost of 
operation, and through better business methods all 
around, but the bulk of it will come out of the public. 
Let the railroads of the country fall into a few controll- 
ing hands, as they seem likely to do, and it will be a 
difficult and expensive task to keep them within reason- 
able bounds, either by State or national legislation." 

In the intervals of a busv life Mr. Mitchell has 
contributed occasional articles to Forest and Stream 
an I other sportsman's papers and periodicals, among 
them being one on the " Michigan Grayling," pub- 
lished in Forest and Stream^ which attracted consider 
able attention. He has been too busy in other directions 
for any serious literary work for many years past. 
For recreation he turns, as always, to hunting and lish- 
ing. " These outdoor sports, besides being attractive 
in themselves, atford a much needed change to the 
busy office man, taking his thoughts from business 
matters, giving his muscles exercise, his lungs ozone, 
and enabling him to take up with new vigor his daily 
work in the office. I am also something of a golf en- 
thusiast." 

Mr. Mitchell is a life-long Republican, but has never 
held political office and never wishes to. He is a 



84 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

member of the masonic fraternity ; is devoted to whist 
and has held office in the Michigan Whist Association 
for many years, being president in 1899 and vice-presi- 
dent now. He is somewhat prominent in the local 
Business Men's Club, the Athletic Club, the Olympian, 
the Country Club (golf), and other social organizations. 
He married, Jan. 19, 1881, Miss Anna L. Flint of Bel- 
low Falls, and they have had two children : Gertrude 
Louise, born Oct. i, 1883, but who died in October, 
1887; and Marjorie, born Dec. 22, 1894. 

Carroll Willie Morrill. 

Immediately after graduation Mr. Morrill accepted 
the position of principal of the mathematical depart- 
ment of the high school in Bath, Maine, which he 
retained until June, 1881, occupying his vacations 
during this time with the study of law in the office of 
the Hon. M. P. Frank, Pordand, Maine. He was 
admitted to the Sagadahoc bar in April, 1881, and two 
months later opened an office at 199 Middle Street, 
Portland. From that dme to the present Mr. Morrill 
has condnued in the practise of his profession in Port- 
land. He has, moreover, for several years been active 
in politics, and is a valued member of the Republican 
party. He is an effective public speaker, and has done 
good work on the stump. He was elected representa- 
tive to the State Legislature from Pordand in 1893, and 
" in regard to my legislative work," he writes, " I will 
add that I was made chairman of the Committee on 
Legal Affairs, a very important committee, and was 
further honored by being appointed by Speaker Savage 
to deliver a memorial address on the life and character 
of James G. Blaine, in the House of Representatives, 
on Jan. 27, 1893." 

In March, 1897, Mr. Morrill was elected city solic- 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 85 

itor of the city of Portland, to which ollice he was re- 
elected in 1898, and again in 1899. ^^^ ^^s one of the 
prime movers in the organization of the Lincoln Club, a 
very strong and influential Republican political club, 
having an active membership of over three hundred, 
and which has owed its continued success to the sub- 
stantial lines upon which it was founded. It was 
formed twelve years ago, and Mr. Morrill was elected 
its flrst president. The club has annually commemo- 




rated the 1 2th of February — the anniversary of the 
birth of Abraham Lincoln — by a banquet and speech 
making either in City Hall or at some of the hotels, 
and the occasion has grown to be an important and 
significant one. Mr. Morrill has also been secretary of 
the Republican County Committee for a long series of 
years. 

For eighteen years he has been a member of Munjoy 



86 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

Lodge, No. 6, Knights of Pythias, of Portland, and is 
also a member of the Past Chancellors Association of 
that order. 

" My favorite recreation," he says, " is that of Isaak 
Walton, and I try each year to steal a few days from 
business cares to indulge in the sport of fishing." 

Mr. Morrill married, June 30, 1887, Miss Jennie 
Lizzie Crockett, of Portland, and they have one child, 
Ruth Shirley, born March 3, 1895. 

Charles Wyman Morse. 

After graduation Mr. Morse passed several months 
in Europe in the autumn of 1877. On his return he 
engaged with his father, Mr. Benjamin W. Morse, in 
the shipping business in Bath, Maine. They were 
shippers of ice to southern ports, and Maine ice was a 
profitable article of domestic export to New Orleans and 
among the coast cities, including Baltimore and Phila- 
delphia. In the early '8o's Mr. Morse removed to 
Brooklyn, N. Y., carrying forward, from this point, the 
further expansion and development of the ice business. 
He became closel}^ connected with the business in 
Philadelphia and Baltimore, establishing his own com- 
panies and making them prosperous rivals of local con- 
cerns. In some southern cities he held the cream of 
the trade until the introduction of modernized ice 
machines made these localities independent of outside 
supplies. 

In 1891 Mr. Morse transferred his business to New 
York City, and four years later he resolved to put an 
end to the destructive warfare between the competing 
ice companies and bring them together in one large, 
economically managed concern. By rare diplomacy 
and persistence, and after the expenditure of millions of 
dollars, he finally united more than twenty companies 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 



87 



and all their properties, embracing over one hundred 
ice houses, covering the ice business of the Hudson 
River and most of the business in Maine. Of this Con- 
solidated Ice Company Mr. Morse was the first presi- 
dent. It possesses most valuable wharf properties in 
New York City and at other points, owns more than 
one hundred ice barges, and harvests over three million 
tons of ice every winter. Although still one of the 
largest stockholders, Mr. Morse resigned the presidency 




of the company about three years ago because of his 
increasing business operations in other lines. 

His interests in the national banking business have 
grown to large proportions, and, with his other enter- 
prises, have given him prominence among the great 
capitalists of New York. He is spoken of as attracting 
"the attention of the banking communit}' by the ac- 
quisition, within a year or two, of a chain of banks 



88 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

extending from Wall Street to Harlem, and including 
one bank in Brooklyn." Among these may be men- 
tioned the New Amsterdam National Bank, the National 
Commercial Bank, the Garfield National Bank, the 
National Broadway Bank, the Bank of the State of 
New York, the Produce Exchange Bank, the National 
Bank of North America in New York, the Twelfth 
Ward National Bank, the Nineteenth Ward National 
Bank, all of New York City, the Sprague National 
Bank, of Brooklyn, and the Lincoln National Bank, of 
Bath. " He is also prominently identified as a stock- 
holder with a dozen other trust companies and banks," 
says Leslie's Weekly of Feb. 24, 1898, in a careful 
biographical sketch of Mr. Morse, " and is probably 
more widely known and more influential in business 
circles of New York than any other man of his years." 
Mr. Morse is also at the head of the Eastern Steam- 
ship Company, organized at Portland in 1901, with a 
capital stock of three million dollars and a provision for 
the issuance of bonds to the extent of the capital stock. 
As the leader of this great corporate enterprise, Mr. 
Morse controls all the coastwise steamers running be- 
tween New York and Portland, Boston and Portland, 
Boston and Bangor, Boston and the Kennebec, and 
Boston and St. John. Very recently, also, he has com- 
pleted a move by which he has secured control of the 
People's Line, the Hudson River steamboat line between 
Albany and New York. He has become, moreover, a 
most important factor in the telephone situation, having 
purchased outright for two million dollars, less than a 
year ago, the charters for the Telegraph, Telephone, 
and Cable Company of America and its branches, 
covering the States of New York, Massachusetts, New 
Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. " The project 
appealed to me as a busmess investment," Mr. Morse is 
quoted as saying in an interview. "New York and 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 89 

Boston are covered by a single company. Its profits 
are not easily calculated. It is my intention to begin 
here in New York as a base. Then we can make 
arrangements with all other independent companies that 
may want to get a connection with New York City." 

Mr. Morse lives at 724 Fifth Avenue, New York 
City, and is a member of the Union League, the 
Metropolitan Club, and the University Club of that city. 
He married, April 14, 1884, Miss Hattie Bishop Hussey, 
of Brooklyn, who died July 30, 1897. He married a sec- 
ond time, on June 18, 1901, at the Fifth Avenue Presby- 
terian Church, Mrs. Clemence Cowles Dodge. He has 
four children: Benjamin Wyman, born Dec. 17, 1885 5 
Erwin Albert, born Jan. 18, 1888; Harry F., born 
Dec. 19, 1890; and Anna Elsie, born Feb. 28, 1896. 

Leander Hathaway Moulton. 

Born in Durham, Maine, Feb. 6, 185 1. 

Died in Lisbon Falls, Maine, March 16, 1902. 

After leaving college in his sophomore year Mr. 
Moulton taught for some time in his native town of 
Durham, and was afterward for one year principal of 
the academy at China, Maine. In the fall of 1879 ^^^ 
became principal of the Lee Normal Academy, at Lee, 
Maine. When he entered upon his duties at this institu- 
tion there were only forty-five students, but he set at 
work to build up the school, and succeeded in raising 
large sums of money with which school apparatus, an 
organ, etc., were purchased. There was a gradual in- 
crease in numbers undl in the spring of 1887 the school 
had one hundred and sevv:^nteen students. During the 
twelve years Mr. Moulton remained there the school 
came to be better known than any other in northern 
Maine, and its principal recognized as one who had 



90 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

done much for the manhood and womanhood of a large 
region. 

Mr. Moulton resigned his position in Lee, to the re- 
gret of all, and accepted the principalship of the high 
school at Lisbon Falls in order that he might be near 
his mother, upon whom he bestowed every care and 
attention until her death at the home farm, in Durham 
one year ago. Assuming charge of the Lisbon Falls 
school in the fall of 1891 he made it a college pre- 
parator}'^ school, and its increase in membership was at 
once remarked. Under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. 
Moulton, the school grew to be one of the best and most 
progressive high schools in the State, the pupils sent by 
it to the colleges comparing favorably with those from 
any preparatory school. Mr. Moulton's best labors and 
energies were given to this school, but he took his part 
in the general interests of the community. He served 
as member of the School Board of Lisbon, and as presi- 
dent of the Androscoggin County Teachers' Association. 
He belonged to Columbia Lodge, Knights of Pythias, 
in which he was past chancellor ; to Ancient York 
Lodge, Masonic, and was a past officer in Ali Baba 
Temple, Dramatic Order, Knights of Khorassan. 

Mr. Moulton's death resulted from pernicious aneemia. 
He had been in ill health all winter, but not realizing the 
serious nature of the disease, clung to his school work 
until the close of the winter term. After this he failed 
rapidly until the end, which came March 16, 1902. 

Mr. Moulton married, October 9, 1874, Miss Laura 
Eleanor Whitney, of Brunswick, Maine, who survives 
him. They had no children. 

Charles Lendol Nickerson. 

The three years following graduation Mr. Nickerson 
was variously employed, teaching a part of the time at 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 91 

Woodford's, Maine, and subsequently being connected 
with business houses in Boston, Mass., and Saco, 
Maine. In September, 1880, he accepted an ap- 
pointment as instructor in mathematics and natural 
science in the Hallowell Classical and Scientific 
Academy, Hallowell, Maine. This position he retained 
three years, when ill health caused him to resign, and he 
went West in the fall of 1883. In September of that 
year he accepted a position as superintendent and princi- 
pal of the high school in Garden City, Minn. " But 
Minnesota air was not improved for him by being 
mixed with chalk dust," he wrote at that time, and at 
the end of a year he gave up teaching and bought a 
farm. In the class report issued in 1887 he is quoted as 
saying, " I enjoy this out-of-door life very much, and 
find it far more healthful, and expect to find it not less 
remunerative after my stock has increased somewhat, 
as the value of land in this vicinity is rising rapidly." 

In March of the present year Mr. Nickerson writes : 
" The above extract is correct as to statements and the 
' expectations ' have been well met. I have continued 
' doing business at the old stand.' I have led a busy, 
but somewhat quiet and uneventful, life. The making 
of a home out of a piece of bare prairie is a work full 
of interest to those engaged in it, but attracts little notice 
from others. Since the last report I have built and oc- 
cupied a large house on the same farm ; have kept on at 
general farming, making only such changes of the 
leading lines as the markets and growth of the country 
demanded ; have never had any desire to return to an 
indoor occupation, and find the care and developing 
of my own young cattle, lambs, and colts much less try- 
ing than that of another's ' kids." 

"While growino- wheat to some extent in rotation I 
have never made it a specialty as has been done here by 
many renters and some large farmers. Growing forage 



92 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

crops and raising cattle, hogs, and horses distributes the 
work better through the year, avoids the rush of har- 
vest and the invasion of one's home by ' hobo ' harvest 
hands, conserves fertility, and keeps one so busy at 
home that he has no time to spread carmine decorations 
on the country towns. 

" Aside from reading, I find much pleasure in follow- 
ing some line of special farming. Perhaps fruit grow- 
ing has been the most interesdng, and an abundance of 
apples, lasting well into spring, helps to keep up an 
interest in the subject. Not many years ago it was 
tliouglit that only crab-apples could be grown in 
Minnesota; now a good variety of standard apples are 
grown." 

Mr. Nickerson is a Minnesota Republican — "a 
Republican as a matter of principle and not of per- 
quisites." 

He married, Aug. 23, 1881, Miss Ella M. Graves, of 
Saco. The\' have no children. 

Fremont Man nine Palmer. 



Born at rorlhuul, Maine, Feb. 29, 1856. 
Died at Porlhmd, Maine, June 22, 1885. 



In the autumn of 1877, immediately after graduation, 
Mr. Palmer became bookkeeper with his father, dealer 
in boots and shoes, Portland, where, with one or two 
long vacations excepted — taken with a view to benefit- 
ing his health — he remained until the time of his death. 
In the spring of 1879 he passed several weeks in Cuba, 
and three years later he made a four months' trip in 
Europe, visidng Germany, Austria, Italy, France, and 
England. In a private letter, his father, Mr. M. G. 
Palmer, says : " His competency and fidelity and adapta- 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 93 

bility to his business were remarkable. He seemed to 
retain all the knowledge he had acquired and brou<^ht 
it into business when needed. The arrangement of 
the store, planned and carried out by him, was so sys- 
tematic and complete as to attract the attention of shoe 
dealers, who universally gave it the credit of being 
the best retail boot and shoe store in the United States. 
His quiet, gentlemanly manners, his studious habits, his 
fondness for his parents, and his solicitude for their com- 
fort and happiness were observed by all who came in 
contact with him, and no young man in this city stood 
higher in the estimation of his acquaintance. Never 
remarkably strong, but enjoying very good health, he 
bade fair for a long and useful life. In June, 1885, a 
cold resulted in a fever, from which he soon rallied and 
had reached a nearly normal condition. Feeling quite 
able to get up, he exerted himself too much in putting 
on his clothing, which he had completed and had sat 
down by the window, when his heart ceased to beat, 
and he was gone in a moment, without a word, gasp, or 
struggle. ' Heart failure,' was the verdict of the physi- 
cians who were immediately called." He was the center 
of a warm circle of friends, who iiad learned to love and 
respect his kindly character and manly worth. 

Robert Edwin Peary. 

The two years following graduation Mr. Peary was 
civil engineer and surveyor at Fryeburg, Maine. In 
July, 1879, '^^ received a provisional, and in the January 
following a permanent, appointment to the United 
States Coast Survey service, ranking first among the 
eight picked contestants at the second examination. 
He continued in the Coast Survey Olhce at Washington 
until the summer of 1881, when he entered a competi- 
tive examination for a position in the Engineer Corps, 



94 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

United States Navy. Of about two hundred applicants 
less than forty passed the preliminary technical and 
physical examination and received permits to enter the 
examination for appointments. This was most rigorous, 
occupying eight hours a day for ten days and but fifteen 
candidates persevered to the end. Mr. Peary was one 
of four successful, and in November, 1881, received 
commission as officer of the Engineer Corps, United 
States Navy, with the rank and pay of lieutenant. In 




November, 1886, he was promoted by the rules of the 
service to the rank and pay of lieutenant-commander. 
After his appointment in 188 1 he was stationed first 
at the Washington Navy Yard, and subsequentl}- had 
charge of the construction of an iron pier at Key West, 
Florida. He finished duty at Key West and came north 
in July, 1883, ^i^d in September following was ordered 
to Newport, R. I., to take charge of improvements at 
the Naval Training Station. 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 95 

In June, 1884, he declined an offer from the Siamese 
government to take charge of works in that country, and 
in December of the same year was ordered to special 
duty in Nicaragua on the Interoceanic Canal Survey. 
He returned in June, 1885, and was ordered to Wash- 
ington on special duty, and on completing this service he 
obtained from the Department eight months' leave of 
absence, from April 15, 1886. Most of this furlough 
he occupied with a trip to Greenland, undertaken in his 
pesonal capacit}^ only, for the purpose of penetrating 
and exploring the interior. He was three months in 
Greenland, his inland trip over the glacier, full of thrill- 
ing adventures and experiences occupying twenty days. 
He succeeded in penetrating about one hundred miles 
into the interior and became convinced that " instead of 
the interior of Greenland being an impassable region, it 
is for a properly equipped party of men, expert with 
snowshoes, an imperial highway. Such a party could 
accomplish about all it is desirable to learn, in case the 
inland ice is coextensive with Greenland itself, and 
would doubtless discover the mysterious Northeast 
Cape, an achievement second in scientific value only to 
the discovery of the Northwest Passage, and in senti- 
mental value only to the North Pole." His party con- 
sisted of ten only, eight of them being nadve Eskimos. 
His return home by a whaler took two and a half 
months. 

Such was Lieutenant Peary's first arcdc experience, 
as recorded in the class report of 1887, and such his 
opinion of the promises and possibilities of exploration 
in the land of eternal snow. Since thatdme his repeated 
expeditions to Greenland, carried triumphantly through 
in the face of discouragements and obstacles that might 
well appall the bravest, have won for him the admira- 
tion of his countrymen and the respect of the scientific 
world. To give any adequate description of his ex- 



g6 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

periences during these years would far transcend the 
limitations imposed by a class report. His work in all 
its phases has been discussed in the monthl}^ maga- 
zines, the reviews, the geographical and other scientific 
periodicals, and in the daily and weekly press of the 
United States and England. His own book, "North- 
ward over the ' Great Ice ' : a Narrative of Life and 
Work along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice-Cap 
of Northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891- 
1897," published in two volumes (New York: Frederick 
A. Stokes Company, 1898), contains a mass of material 
of high scientific value as well as of great popular 
interest. Around this may be grouped other volumes 
bv individual members of his different expeditions, and 
papers and discussions before geographical and ethno- 
logical societies. A " Peary literature " has grown up 
which will be an important chapter in the long story of 
arctic exploration and discovery. 

For the statement which follows the class are in- 
debted to the kindness of Mrs. Pear}', who herself ac- 
companied Lieutenant Pear}- on his expediuon which 
sailed June 6, 1891, and again on the expedition of 
1893, passing thus two years in arctic life, the first at 
the headquarters of the expedition at McCormick Bay, 
and the second at Falcon Harbor, Bowdoin Bay, and 
sharing the dangers and the hardships, as well as the 
pleasures, of the life with her husband and the men of 
his command. It is admirable and authoritative in every 
respect. 

" On his return from Greenland, in 1886, Mr. Peary 
was on special dutv at the Bureau of Yards and Docks, 
Navy Department, Washington. In November he was 
sent to Nicaragua as sub-chief of the Nicaragua Canal 
Construction Company, where he superintended the 
survey of the entire route from ocean to ocean. He re- 
turned to New York in July, 1888, and completed his 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 97 

report. In 1889 he was ordered to League Island 
Navy Yard, Philadelphia, to superintend tlie con- 
struction of a timber dry dock, which was completed in 
1891. 

"In June, 1891, he was granted leave of absence by 
the navy department to continue the exploration of the 
Greenland coast. The objects of this expedition were : 

" /'7r.s7. — Determination of the northern limit of 
Greenland overland. 

''^Second. — The possible discovery of the most prac- 
ticable route to the pole. 

" Third. — The study of the Whale Sound Eskimos. 

" Fourth. — The securing of geographical and meteo- 
rological data. 

" He returned from this expedition in September, 
1892, with the following results: 

" First. — The determination of the northern exten- 
sion and the insularity of Greenland and the delineation 
of the northern extension of the great interior ice-cap. 

" Second. — The discovery of detached ice-free land 
masses of less extent to the northward. 

" Third. — The determination of the rapid conver- 
gence of the Greenland shores above the seventy-eighth 
parallel. 

'■''Fourth. — The observation of the relief of an ex- 
ceptionally large area of the inland ice. 

'-'-Fifth. — The delineation of the unknown shores 
of Ingletield Gulf and the imperfectly known shores of 
Whale and Murchison Sounds. 

'■'-Sixth. — The discovery of a large number of 
glaciers of the first magnitude. 

'■'■ Seventh. — Tlie first complete and accurate re- 
corded information of the arctic highlanders. 

'-'-Eighth. — Complete meteorological and tidal 
observations. 

'■'■ JVinth. — Sledge journey of thirteen hundred miles 



98 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

at an altitude of from two thousand to eight thousand 
feet above the sea-level, without a cache from beginning 
to end. 

" The next nine months Mr. Peary devoted to lec- 
turing in order to raise the necessary funds for a con- 
tinuation of his explorations in the arctic regions. 

" On July 8, 1893, he left Portland, Maine, on his 
third expedition to the frozen North. The objects of 
this expedition were : 

'■''First. — The delimitation of the detached lands 
lying north of Main Greenland. 

'''■Second. — The filling in of the remaining gaps in 
the northern and northeastern coast-line of Greenland. 

" Third. — The completion of the detail survey of 
the Whale Sound region. 

" Fourth. — Continuation of the studies of the Smith 
Sound Eskimos. 

'■'■Fifth, — The discovery of the ' Iron Mountains.' 

" In September, 1895, he returned with the following 
results : 

'■'•First. — The crossing of the inland ice-cap of 
North Greenland under a most serious handicap of 
insufficient provisions. 

'■'■Second. — The completion of the detail survey of 
Whale Sound. 

" Third. — Large accessions of material and infor- 
mation in connection with the Smith Sound Eskimos. 

'■'■Fourth. — The discovery of the 'Iron Mountain,' 
or Cape York meteorites, and the bringing back of two 
of those interesting masses. 

" In November, 1895, he was ordered to duty at the 
New York Navy Yard. In July, 1896, he obtained 
three months' leave of absence from the navy depart- 
ment and sailed for Cape York, hoping to bring back 
the last and largest of these meteorites. But the season 
was an earl}^ one, and this, together with the failure of 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 99 

two of his hydraulic jacks, obliged him to return the 
following September without his prize. However, the 
great mass of iron, which he now knew weighed nearly 
ninety tons, had been brought down to the water's edge 
ready to be put on board ship another summer. He 
again went on duty at the New York Navy Yard until 
July, 1897, when he once more pushed north with all 
the appliances necessary to put the great meteorite into 
the hold of the ship. The following September he 
returned, bringing the largest known meteorite in the 
world to New York. 

" President McKinley luuing granted him five years' 
leave of absence in which to locate the North Pole if 
possible, Mr. Peary set to work at once to raise the 
necessary funds. All of his expeditions have been 
backed by private capital. The government has never 
subscribed a cent, nor has he asked it. In July, 1898, 
he again sailed for the arctic regions, this time his 
object being the attainment of the pole and the delinea- 
tion of the lands north of Greenland. In 1899 he re- 
ported that owing to the frosting of his feet and the 
subsequent amputation of seven toes, he had been able 
to deposit depots of supplies as far north as Fort Conger 
only. He was the first to cross Ellesmere Land from 
east to west and ascend its ice-cap ; he also surveyed 
the Hayes Sound, Bache Island region, proving that 
there is no sound and that Bache Island is a peninsula. 

" In 1900 he reports the following results : 

" First. — The sounding of the northern limit of the 
Greenland Archipelago, the most northerly known land 
in the world, probably the most northerl}' land. 

" Second. — Tiie highest latitude yet attained in the 
western hemisphere, 83° 50' N. 

" Third. — The determination of the oriijin of the 
so-called ' paleocrystic ice,' ' floe bergs,' etc. 

" He returned to his headquarters at Fort Conger, 



..oFC. 



loo Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

where he expeeted his ship to meet him, but in this he 
was disappointed, as it was impossible for a ship to 
foree her way through tlie iee that year. Consequently 
in the spring of 1901 he started south to hunt up his 
ship and his supplies. These he found awaiting him at 
Cape Sabine, where they had spent the winter anxiously 
watchintj for his return, 

"Here the ship left him in August, 1901, and here 
he will make his winter quarters, and early in the spring 
of 1902 will make his final attempt to reach the pole, 
returning to his home, with God's help, in the ship 
which will go for him in the summer of 1902." 

Mr. Peary married, Aug. 11, 1888, Miss Josephine 
Diebitsch, of Washington, and they have had two 
children, Marie Ahnighito, born Sept. 12, 1893, at 
Anniversary Lodge, Bowdoin J^ay, Greenland, in lati- 
tude 77° 44' N., and having the distincdon of being the 
most northerly born white child in the world ; and 
Francine, born Jan. 7, 1899, but who died Aug. 7, 
1899, never having seen her father. 

Curtis Appleton Perry. 

In the August following graduation Mr. Perry sailed 
for Europe, where the next four years were passed in 
study and travel in many of the continental countries, 
including Germany, Russia, Switzerland, Italy, and 
France. The larger part of this time was given to the 
study of art, and following the instincdve impulses and 
tastes of his nature he ended by definitely adopting 
painting as his profession. On his return to this coun- 
try in July, 1881, he opened a studio at 16 West 23d 
Street, New York City, where he remained somewhat 
more than a year, devoting himself entirely to the 
painUng of figures and portraits. In 1883, however, he 
returned to Paris for further study and was abroad until 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. loi 

the early suinnicr of iS<S6. This lime was passed, so 
far as possible, in earnest art work, but his health was 
not stroller, and severe nervous troubles forbade his at- 
teniptin<^ any continued or important work during the 
seasons of 1885 and 1886. In the spring of the latter 
year he went to IlerauU, a French watering-place, for 
change and medical treatment, returning to America the 
last of June. For several years thereafter he lived in 
l^raintree, Mass., in and near which place some of his 
best work as a painter has been done. He lias con- 
tributed to many exhibitions, including the Royal 
Academy Exhibition of 1891, but his work has often 
been interrupted by impaired health, and it has been 
necessary for him to seek rest and change in travel. 
For the last eight or nine years he has lived in Portland, 
Maine, doing as much as liis health would permit in 
the line of portrait painting, and taking his summers for 
the freest outdoor life in the countrv. In these long 
vacations he has of recent years given himself to the care- 
ful study of the mushroom family in New England, and 
especially in Maine, including all varieties, lioth edible 
and poisonous, and he is to-day jirobably one of the e\- 
l-)ert mycologists of New England. In quite another 
line of late years have been his continued observations 
and studies in sociological problems, which have pro- 
foundly influenced his opinions, and of which a state- 
ment will be found in another division of this report. 
Mr. Perry is not married. 

William Perry. 

In the fall of 1877 Mr. Perry began the study of law 
with Messrs. Tuckerman, Huntington, and Fitz, of 
Salem, Mass., with whom he remained one year, and 
then entered the Harvard Law School. At that institu- 
tion he took a two years' course, being graduated in 



I02 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

June, 1880, and shortly thereafter formed a partner- 
ship with Alden P. White, Esq., under the firm name 
of Perry & White, for the practise of law in Salem. 
Here he has ever since continued in the active practise 
of his profession. His business is entirely an office 
practise, and he devotes himself almost exclusively to 
the management of trust estates. He is also clerk of 




the First District Court of Essex County. For recrea- 
tion he turns to yachting, golf, and tennis. 

He was given the degree of A. B., out of course, at 
the Bowdoin Commencement of 1887. 

Mr. Perry married, June 19, 1889, Miss Lucy Dan- 
iels Sutton, of Salem. They have no children. 

Samuel Russell Bearce Pingree. 

After leaving Bowdoin at the end of his freshman 
year he entered the corresponding class in the Boston 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77- 103 

University, at which institution lie was graduated in 
1877, remaining, however, a year longer for post- 
graduate study. During 1878-79 he was a student of 
classical philology at Leipzig, Germany, and during 
1879-80 at Strasburg. On his return to this country he 
became instructor in the classics and in the German 
language at Poughkeepsie Military Institute, Pough- 
keepsie, N, Y., tilling this position for two years. He 
then relinquished teaching, and in January, 1883, en- 
tered business with his father, under the tirm name of 
R. C. Pingree & Co., manufacturers of lumber at 
Lewiston, Maine, where he has continued in business 
during the last nineteen 3'ears. 

Mr. Pingree married, Sept. 6, 188 1, Miss Sarah 
Putney Jones, of Georgetown, Mass., and they have 
five children : Elizabeth Nelson, born July 18, 1885 ; 
Harold Bearce, born Nov. 2, 1886; Helen Spofford, 
born May 4, 1889; Mellen Howard, born Nov. 21, 
1890 ; and Arthur Edward, born Aug. 26, 1894. 

Edwin Judson Pratt. 



Born in Yarmouth, Maine, July 7, 1853. 
Died in New York City, April 20, 1896. 



During the two years immediately following gradua- 
tion Mr. Pratt assisted Dr. T. F. Allen, of New York 
City, in the preparation of his " Encyclopedia of Materia 
Medica," with this work uniting, a part of the time, lec- 
tures at the Long Island College Hospital, Brookh-n, 
N. Y., and at the New York Homoeopathic Medical 
College, at which latter institution he was graduated in 
March, 1881. He then became house physician at the 
Brooklyn Maternity Hospital, where he remained for 
three years, during which time he had an ofiice for pri- 



I04 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

vate practise at 65 Green Avenue, Brooklyn. Ill health 
forced him to pass a year and a half in the mountain 
regions of Wyoming and Colorado, from the early sum- 
mer of 1884 to the autumn of 1885. Returning then to 
New York City with health thoroughly reestablished, 
he became actively engaged in private practise, living 
at 7 West 39th Street with his sister and his brother-in- 
law, Dr. Henry C. Houghton. He received the special 
certificate in laryngology from the College of the New 




York Ophthalmic Hospital in 1S86, and the degree of 
Oculiet Auris Chirurgis in 1887, with the appointment 
of assistant surgeon to the clinic of Dr. H. C. Houghton. 
He was later made professor of general anatomy and 
histology of the eye, and was appointed a surgeon in 
1893, conducting a clinic with marked ability up to 
the time of his death. 

Dr. Pratt was a member of the American Institute, of 
the State and County Societies, and of the New York 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 105 

Medical Club. He was also a Free Mason. For three 
years he was treasurer of the Alumni Association of the 
New York Homoeopathic Medical College, and at the 
time of his death was chairman of the executive com- 
mittee of the association. 

In the summer of 1891 he visited the various eye hos- 
pitals in England and on the continent. During the 
years of private practise in New York City he stood as 
one of the most prominent physicians, having a large 
number of the leading New York families to whom he 
gave his untiring care and attention. Included among 
his patients were the families of ex-President Harrison, 
Benjamin McKee, General Anderson, and many others. 
Senator Elkins requested him to give up his practise, 
for the time being, to take the case of his son who 
was suffering with scarlet fever and diphtheria. This 
he did, and sa\'ed the boy's life. Dr. Pratt received 
unbounded, respect and love from all who knew him, 
"as a man faithful to his ideals, and one who ac- 
complished the tasks of life with scrupulous conscien- 
tiousness." 

Dr. Pratt married, Oct. 17, 1893, Susanne, daughter 
of the late George Minor and Maria B. Wheeler, of 
New York City. After their marriage he moved to 
45 West 45th Street, where he lived until his death. 
During March, 1896, he was called to take the case of 
Mr. David Dows, Jr., at Palm Beach, Florida, who was 
suffering from typhoid fever. He promised to take 
charge of the case for one month, although at the time 
he was feeling much debilitated in his own liealth. At 
the end of three weeks he was obliged to return home, 
and was but just able to make the trip, as he was suffer- 
ing severely with the fever himself. The case was an 
unusuall}^ severe one of three weeks, and terminated 
fatally in sudden pulmonary oedema, despite every 
effort to save his life. He died on April 20, 1896. 



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Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 



The funeral services were held at his home in 45th 
Street, and his body rests in Woodlawn Cemetery. 
'• To live in hearts of those we love is not to die." 

His wife survives him, with one son, Edwin Judson, 
born July 18, 1895. 

Lewis Henry Reed. 

The winter after graduation he taught in Livermore, 
Maine, and afterwards in Westport, Maine. During 




the summer of 1879 ^^^ ^^^ assistant engineer on a 
steamer plying between Boston and Nahant, Mass. 
Since 1880 he has lived in Mexico, Maine. For the 
first dozen years after making his home in Mexico he 
was occupied partly in land siuweying and partly in 
general business and farming ; since 1892 he has been 
engaged principally in lumbering and in manufacturing 
long and short lumber. He invested quite largely in 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 107 

real estate near Rumford Falls, Maine, having great 
faith in the ultimate development of that locality through 
manufacturing industries. Years ago he wrote: " We 
have here the best water-power in New^ England, 
capable of driving three times as many spindles as 
Lewiston," and events since then have at least partially 
justified his hopefulness. 

Mr. Reed is a Republican, and has served as town 
clerk as well as acting repeatedly as delegate to State 
and county conventions. He is also a member of the 
Masonic Fraternit}'. 

Ever}^ year he tries to get in a fishing and hunting 
trip to the Rangeley Lake region — " as far back into 
the forest as I can get, where one cannot go without 
taking the pack and canoe." 

Mr. Reed married, Oct. 26, 1880, Miss Abbie Paul 
Sanders, of Livermore, and they have four children : 
Mary Luretta, born Nov. 3, 1881 ; Martha Sanders, 
born April 8, 1884 ; Caroline Stockbridge, born 
June 10, 1886; and Elma Lucile, born Sept. 11, 1887. 
Miss Martha and Miss Caroline are preparing for 
college, and both will probably enter Bates College in 
the fall of 1902 and of 1903, respectively. 

John Alfred Roberts. 

During the autumn of 1877 Mr. Roberts taught the 
high school at Brunswick, Maine, but ill-health forced 
him to resign after a few months' service. In the fol- 
lowing spring he began the study of law with M. T. 
Ludden, Esq., of Lewiston, Maine, and was admitted 
to the bar the next year. On May i, 1879, ^"'^ formed 
a partnership with W. C. Greene ('77) for the pracdse 
of law at Mechanic Falls, Maine. This partnership 
was dissolved at the end of one year, and Mr. Roberts 
removed to Norway, Maine. Here he opened an office 



io8 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

for the practise of his profession, but his health, which 
was never rugged, compelled him to give up the con- 
finement of office work, and he bought a farm in Nor- 
way, on which he has since lived. For the past four 
years he has devoted all his attention to the farm, making 
a specialty of dairying. But prior to that he had served 
his town in many responsible positions. In March, 
1 88 1, he was elected a member of the School Board of 




Norway, and, in 1882, town agent, which carried with 
it the management of the town's law business ; and in 
1887 he was placed on the Board of Selectmen. He 
has also acted as supervisor of the town of Norway, 
and as president of the Board of Management of the 
public library. He has been prominently identified 
with the Patrons of Husbandr}^, an organization of 
farmers, and served seven years as Master of the Nor- 
way Grange, of this order, two years as Master of 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 109 

Oxford Pomona, and four years as Overseer of the 
Maine State Grange. 

Mr. Roberts has always been a Republican, and he 
was elected a member of the Maine House of Repre- 
sentatives in 1893-94 ; a member of the Maine Senate 
in 1897-98 ; and was appointed a member of the Maine 
Board of Agriculture, 1900-01. Last winter he " was 
on the Tax Committee that formulated many changes 
in our tax laws, presented the same to the Legislature, 
and secured their passage, thereby increasing the 
annual revenue of the State upwards of a quarter of a 
million dollars." He is at the present time a member 
of the Board of Trustees of the University of Maine. 

Mr. Roberts married, Aug. 24, 1881, Miss Carrie 
Laura Ann Pike, of Norway, a lineal descendant of 
Myles Standish, the Puritan. They have one child, a 
son, Thaddeus Blaine, born Nov. 20, 1885, who will 
probably enter Bowdoin College in the fall of 1902. 

Willett Herbert Sanborn. 

After leaving college Mr. Sanborn passed three 
years in European study and travel, visiting England, 
Germany, France, Austria, and Italy. In Leipzig he 
studied chemistry and music, and in Berlin music and 
medicine. On his return to America he became direc- 
tor of the musical department of St. Mary's School, 
Raleigh, N. C, which position he occupied four years, 
resigning that he might take a further course of musi- 
cal study abroad. The next year was accordingly 
passed in Germany, Mr. Sanborn marrying on June 13, 
1881, Miss Mellitta Lee Blume, of Leipzig. Mr. and 
Mrs. Sanborn continued together their musical studies, 
being a part of the time in the Royal Conservatory of 
Leipzig. They passed nearly a year in Berlin, where 
they attended a series of ten concerts by Von Blilow, 



no Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

and also enjoyed the advantages of such schools as 
Kullak's and Scharvvenka's. They were also six 
months in Vienna, under the famous Lowenstamm. 

After their return to this country in 1882, they were 
for a time connected with the Marion Institute, at 
Marion, Ala,, and then for four years Mr. Sanborn 
served as president of Davenport College, at Lenoir, 
Caldwell County, N. C. This was a high-grade home 
school for girls in the beautiful mountain region of 




western Carolina. The home life was an especial feature 
of the school ; in art and music the courses were un- 
equaled in the South, and in English and modern 
languages the school maintained high rank. It pros- 
pered greatly under the administration of Mr. and Mrs. 
Sanborn. New buildings were erected, the grounds 
beautified and extended, and the accommodations and 
facilities increased in many directions. The work at 
Davenport College was followed by somewhat similar 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. iii 

work at Claremont College, Hickory, N. C, where 
they remained three years; at Columbia Institute, in 
Tennessee, for two years ; and finally at the Southern 
Seminary in Buena Vista, Va., where they have taught 
six years. Mr. and Mrs. Sanborn are now teachers of 
piano, organ, singing, theory, and aesthetics of music 
at Buena Vista. He writes, " I have been busy all 
this time in teaching and working to bring up the stand- 
ard of culture in the States of North Carolina and 
Tennessee. For the past six years I have been in 
Virginia, and I must say that this State, at least in the 
sections in which I have been working, is far less 
advanced than the other two." 

They have four children : Josephine Carr, born 
June 26, 1882; Gertrude Elaine, born Oct. 17, 1884; 
Margaret Longfellow, born June 12, 1885 ; and James 
Leventhorpe, born May 29, 1887. 

Edwin Albert Scribner. 



Born in Topsham, Maine, April 18, 1856. 
Died in Boonton, N. J., May 22, 1898. 



For some months after graduation Mr. Scribner re- 
mained in Brunswick as a private student in chemistry 
with Professor Carmichael, and followed the same sub- 
ject in New York City during the winter of 1877-78. 
In the spring of 1878 he took up agricultural chemistry 
with Dr. G. A. Liebig, of Baltimore, Md. A year and 
a half of business life in connection with D. & C. E. 
Scribner, of Brunswick, was followed by his appoint- 
ment, in January, 1880, as substitute professor of natu- 
ral science and chemistry in Ripon College, Wisconsin, 
and in June of that year he was elected to the full pro- 
fessorship. In June, 1881, he resigned this position to 



112 Bowdoin College, Class of" '77. 

accept an appointment as assistant in the laboratory of 
Edward Weston, electrician to the United States Elec- 
tric Light Company, of Newark, N. J. Here he was 
employed as an original investigator of scientific prob- 
lems covering electrical work and chemistry, at the 
same time acting as consulting chemist for firms in the 
phosphate business in New York City. This latter 
work proved so interesting and promising that Mr. 



Scribner gave more and more of his time to it, and, 
finally, in 1885, he established himself as a manufac- 
turer of fertilizers and chemicals, with a factory at 
Staten Island Sound, Elizabethport, N. J. This busi- 
ness he continued for live years, when he removed from 
Elizabethport to Boonton, N. J., and there organized, 
in 1891, a stock company, under the name of the 
Loando Hard Rubber Company, for the manufacture 
of hard rubber goods, rubberized asbestos electrical in- 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 113 

sulation and ilberized rubber specialties. For seven 
years thereafter, until his death on May 22, 1898, Mr. 
Scribner was president of the Loando Company, an 
active and respected citizen of Boonton, and closely 
identified with all the best interests of the town. lie 
was a member of the Order of Foresters, of the Royal 
Arcanum, and of the Nathan Hale Lodge, of Hartford, 
Conn. His final illness lasted about six weeks. 

The papers of Boonton and the neighboring localiUes 
at the time of his decease spoke warmly and apprecia- 
tively of his work and character, one of them saying, 
" Mr. Scribner was a man of sterling qualities and 
broad sympathies. Perhaps his distinguishing char- 
acteristic was his intense loyalty. Like all loyal men 
he was possessed of strong and positive convictions, and 
he had the courage to go with them. In politics he was 
always a Republican, and was, at the time of his death, 
chairman of the Republican Municipal Committee and 
a member of the Republican County Committee." 

Mr. Scribner married, Aug. 18, 1880, Miss Annie 
Eugenia Thompson, of Topsham, Maine, who survives 
him, and they had three children : Jessie Harwood, born 
Dec. 31, 1881 : Charles Edwin, born July 6, 1884; and 
George Kline, born Dec. 17, 1891. The older son, 
Charles Edwin, was prepared for college at the Pater- 
son Military School, Paterson, N. J., Lincoln A. Rogers 
(Bowdoin, '75), principal, and is now in the class of 
1905, Princeton University. 

Charles Bailey Seabury. 

During the two years following graduation Mr. Sea- 
bur}^ engaged in business with his father at Gardiner, 
Maine. In the autumn of 1879 ^^ became principal of 
the Gardiner High School, where he remained six 
years. His success as a teacher was marked. During 



1 14 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

a part of his term of service he had under his manage- 
ment a grammar school in addition to the high school, 
about two hundred pupils in all. 

In the latter part of 1885 he accepted a position as 
agent of Henry Holt & Co., publishers, New York, 
with whom he remained nearly a year. In September, 
1886, he became connected with the Magnesia Sectional 
Covering Company, at 13 Cedar Street, New York 
City. Subsequently, he was for several years with the 




H. W. Johns Manufacturing Company, 87 Maiden 
Lane, and later at 100 William Street, New York City, 
as superintendent of the Contract Department. For 
two years prior to 1900 he was assistant general man- 
ager of the National Gramophone Company, at 874 
Broadway, New York. He was then made manager 
of the sales department of Maguire & Baucus, Ltd., 
manufacturers of the Victor Talking Machine, at 44 
Pine Street, New York. When this company was 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 115 

merged in the Victor Distributing and Export Company 
in the latter part of 1901, Mr. Seabury was made secre- 
tary of the new company, a position which he holds at 
the present time. The offices of the company continue 
at 44 Pine Street, New York, but Mr. Seabury's resi- 
dence " has, for the past fifteen 3^ears, been in Brooklyn, 
where," he adds, " ' occurrences ' don't occur." He finds 
as much pleasure as ever in " the rod and gun, and in 
gathering or searching for anything that grows wild." 
He is a Republican, but, like many others, open to 
conviction. 

He married, Aug. 11, 188 1, Miss Ruth Leslie Wil- 
liams, of Gardiner, and has had two sons : Edwin Hill, 
born May 6, 1882, who died Sept. 30, 1882 ; and Rich- 
ard Williams, born Nov. 19, 1883. Richard thought 
of entering Princeton University and took the prelimi- 
nar}^ examinations. He gave up this intention, however, 
but may enter Stevens Institute later. At present he is 
in the drafting room of the Lidgerwood Manufacturing 
Company, cable-way department, preparing practically 
for the profession of mechanical engineer. 

James Wnigate Sewall. 

For two years following his graduation Mr. Sewall 
was employed in civil engineering, mostly in Maine, 
and in township surveys in the northern part of the 
State. In the spring of 1880 he was assistant engineer 
of the sewerage works at Memphis, Tenn., having 
Tillson and Metcalf, both of '77, as associates and com- 
panions in the work. Upon the death of the latter, and 
by recommendation of Professor Vose, he was offered 
and accepted the position of assistant in charge of the 
sewerage of cities, bv the late Col. George E. Waring, 
of Newport, R. I. In 1881 he planned, and in the 
following year supervised, the construction of a sewer- 



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Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 



age system at Norfolk, Va., and this was followed by 
similar work in other southern towns. In August, 

1882, he accepted the place of engineer in charge of the 
Drainage Construction Compau}^ of New York City, 
and for that company planned and carried out the sew- 
erage works of Keene, N. H., this work lasting through 

1883. In 1884 he accepted an appointment as in- 
structor in sanitary engineering at the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, Boston, where he remained 




through the academic year 1884-85, when he was 
obliged to resign by reason of ill-health. He returned 
to Old Town, Maine, entering the employ of David 
Pino-ree and E. S. Coe, owners and managers of timber 
lands, and being placed by them in charge of topo- 
graphical and township survey's. In this work he con- 
tinued for fourteen years, the series of surveys 
gradually covering the northern part of the State of 
Maine. Upon the death of Mr. Coe, however, in 1899, 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 117 

Mr. Sewall gave up engineenn<ij work and assumed 
the general management of tlie business with head- 
quarters in Bangor, Maine. This involves the over- 
sight of some four million acres of timber lands and 
occupies all his time. 

" I no longer get into the woods," he writes, " more's 
the pity, having, since Mr. Coe's death, taken his place 
in the timber land business. This obliges me to pass 
over to the other fellow all the fishing and shoodng, 
tramping, and other pleasures of woods life. Good 
days like these, when the autumn red is on the maples 
and the morning air brittle with frostiness, I confess T 
hanker after another bit of the old life with its freedom. 
So I hunt up my old guide and plan a trip, and talk 
over frizzled pork and venison and lir bough beds ! 
But that's as far as I ever get on the trip." 

" Being a Democrat," he says, " it goes without say- 
ing that I have never held othce." 

Mr. Sewall married, March 27, 1883, Miss Harriet 
Sterling Moor, daughter of the late Dudley W. Moor, 
of Toledo, Oido, and the}- have four children : James 
Wingate, Jr., born Feb. 12, 1884, and who will enter 
Bowdoin this year (1902) ; Katharine Moor, born Oct. 
2, 1887; Virginia Hannah, born Oct. 7, 1888; and 
Harriet S3^dney, born Sept. 19, 1896. 

Addison Munroe Sherman. 

After graduadon Mr. Sherman entered the General 
Theological School, New York City, where he took the 
full course, and was graduated in June, 1880. He was 
ordained to the diaconate of the Episcopal Ciuirch at 
St. Luke's Catiiedral, Portland, Maine, on June 27, 
1880, and very shortly thereafter accepted an invitation 
to become assistant minister of St. Bartholomew's 
Church, Madison Avenue and 44th Street, New York, 



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where he remained a little over four years. In the 
summer of 1881 he took a short European trip. 

In the fall of 1884 he received and accepted a call to 
the rectorship of All Saints' Church and parish in Sing 
Sing, New York, over which he was installed Nov. i, 
1884. There he was very pleasantly situated, a mile 
and a half from Sing Sing village and thirty miles 
from New York. " The place is occupied," he wrote 
in our report of 1887, "by a class of well-to-do men. 




some of them rich. But I am glad to say that I have 
the other extreme, and at the services there are ' all 
sorts and conditions of men ', — as any church should 
have." 

Mr, Sherman remained in the Sing Sing parish for 
three years. He then accepted a call to the rectorship 
of St. James' Church, in Batavia, N. Y., in which he 
was installed Nov. i, 1887, and where he has continued 
to the present time. 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 119 

He received the honorary degree of A. M. from 
Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., in 1898. He is a 
member of the Masonic Fraternity, Blue Lodge, 
chapter and commandery. 

He married, June 29, 1880, Miss Kate Louise Luther, 
of New York, and has had six children : Elizabeth 
Purdy, born May 15, 1882; Gertrude Burd, born 
Jan. 15, 1884, who died Dec. 6, 1891 ; Grace Mar- 
garet, born Jan. 26, 1885 ; Sarah Clarke, born July 11, 
1888, who died Nov. 5, 1888; Florence Louise, born 
Dec. 6, 1889; and Catherine Louise, born April 27, 
1892. 

Henry Herbert Smith. 

After leaving college Mr. Smith entered the Jefferson 
Medical College of Philadelphia, Pa., at which in- 
stitution he was graduated in March, 1877, when he 
immediately established himself in practise in his native 
town, Machias, Maine. Here he remained for nineteen 
3'ears, his success in his chosen profession being most 
marked and gratifying. It was, of necessity, a general 
practise, his location not permitting him to become a spe- 
cialist, but surgery formed an important part of it, and 
he had an unusual amount and variety of surgical work. 

So far as professional duties allowed he also took an 
active interest and part in local affairs. From 1878 to 
1880 he was Supervisor of Schools, a position which he 
resigned because it interfered with medical studies ; but 
in 1886 he was again elected, and reelected in 1887, 
and held the office for a series of years. In 1880 he 
was made town physician of Machias, and in the same 
year was elected to the Board of Trustees of Washing- 
ton Academy, the oldest and most prominent educa- 
tional institution in Washington County. During his 
life in Machias he served several years as the examin- 



I20 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

ing surgeon for pensions for the United States govern- 
ment, as secretary of the Board of Health, and as 
medical examiner for various life insurance companies. 
" But I found the demands on my time so great in 
Machias," Dr. Smith wTites, " and the drain so great on 
my endurance, that I decided to leave the hard and long 
drives I had to take there and enter into competition in 
a city. In September, 1896, I sold my property and 
practise in Machias and moved to Whitneyville, Conn., 




a suburb of New Haven. I practised there until June, 
1901, when I came to New Haven, where I propose to 
make my future home. New Haven attracted me by its 
central location, its beauty, and for being a great educa- 
tional center. 

" I am most pleasantly situated in the very center of 
the city, close to the historic Green, and in one of the 
best and most desirable locations for my business. The 
years of hard work and study that I put in in Maine 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 121 

have given me a fair preparation for the competition, 
and in the few years since leaving my old field I have 
been fortunate enough to build up another — a larger 
and a far more lucrative — business. I devote myself 
to general practise, with special attention to the lungs, 
heart, and stomach." 

Dr. Smith is a member of the Graduate (social) 
Club of New Haven, the New Haven City Medical 
Association, the Maine and the Connecticut State 
Medical Societies, the American Medical Associadon, 
the American Academy of Medicine, the New Haven 
Commandery Knights Templar, and the Congregadonal 
Church. He was given the degree of A. B., out of 
course, at the Bowdoin Commencement of 1887. He 
adds: "I am a Republican, always ; have never held 
any ofiice, but always get time to vote. I like to fish ; 
I like to gun ; but when I go neither fish bite nor game 
appear. I do not play golf, though for some time I 
regularly paid my dues to a golf club and never went 
into the club-house but once. In fact, all my life I 
have been so busy that I have had very little time for 
any kind of recreadon. My summer vacadon I spend 
in travelincT." 

Dr. Smith married, Dec. 24, 1877, Miss Elizabeth 
Longfellow, of Machias, who died April 15, 1884, leav- 
ing two children: Agnes Longfellow, born March 6, 
1881 ; and Philip Seabury, born April 7, 1884. The 
daughter was preparing for Vassar, in the Wheaton 
Seminary, but her health failed and she is now at home 
devodng herself to music, taking lessons on piano and 
in singing and giving lessons on piano. Philip is pre- 
paring for the Sheffield Sciendfic School of Yale Uni- 
versity under Lincoln A. Rogers (Bowdoin, '75) in 
the Paterson Military Institute, Paterson, N. J. Dr. 
Smith married, the second time, on March 24, 1897,. 
Miss Julia Brown Longfellow, at Whitneyville. 



122 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

Albert Somes. 

Mr. Somes has taught continuously since gradua- 
tion. During the winter of 1877-78 he was principal 
of the high school in Waldoboro, Maine, and in the 
spring of 1878 had charge of the high school at Wis- 
casset, Maine. He then became principal of the Frank- 
lin High School in Salmon Falls, N. H., where he 
remained six years. In the summer of 1884 he accepted 
an invitation from the trustees of Berwick Academy, at 
South Berwick, Maine, to become principal of that 
school, assuming the duties of the position in Septem- 
ber of that year. He thought the prospect not at all 
good when he took charge of the school. The number 
of scholars was less than thirty, the school building 
sadly in need of repairs, and the fund in a poor condi- 
tion. Things greatly changed, however, during his 
connection with the school. The number of scholars 
more than doubled, the endowment was considerably 
increased, and the building was placed in excellent re- 
pair and provided with steam heat, new furniture, and 
modern appliances. The Berwick Academy, founded 
in 1 791, is the oldest school in the State, and has sent 
forth many distinguished graduates, among whom are 
John Lord, the historian, Hon. Francis B. Hayes, Hon. 
Bion Bradbury, W. H. K. Ward, long the editor of the 
Independent, Sarah Orne Jewett, and others. 

Mr. Somes continued at the head of this school until 
August, 1888, when he was appointed principal of the 
high school in Manchester, N. H., and entered upon 
his work there the next September. For twelve years 
he remained in charge of this school, resigning in July, 
1900, to become director of Cayuga Lake Academy, a 
home school for boys, at Aurora, N. Y. Founded in 
1798, this is the oldest school in central New York, and 
from an early date has attracted students from distant 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 



123 



places. The buildings, situated upon a gentle slope, 
about three hundred feet from the east shore of Cayuga 
Lake, command a view of more than ten miles of hill 
and water scenery. Cayuga Lake is forty miles in 
length, and the school is situated just at its broadest 
part, where it measures live miles in width. The estate 
occupied by the school now contains about twelve acres 
of land, all graded and laid out in playgrounds, lawns, 
and drives. The main building is an edihce of brick 




and hewn limestone, containing the school and recita- 
tion rooms, the laboratories, dormitories, the private 
apartments of the director, the gymnasium and audi- 
torium, the librar}- and reading room, and the dining 
room and kitchens. It is heated by steam and lighted 
by electricity. The utmost care is exercised in the ad- 
mission of boys to the academy. To enter upon the 
academic course of study, which requires four 3'ears to 



124 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

complete, a boy should not be younger than thirteen 
years old. The work required for admission to the 
leading American colleges and universities is done in 
the most thorough manner, and to complete the course 
in four years a student must take subjects that will re- 
quire at least nineteen hours a week of recitation work. 
" The first lesson our students learn," says the academy 
catalogue, " is to study, and in the first years of the course 
they study in the school study room under the immediate 
direction of the teachers ; in the last years of the course, 
or when it is found to be profitable, they are required to 
prepare their lessons in their own rooms." Connected 
with the academy is also a preparatory department for 
younger boys, and there has been established a depart- 
ment of graduate instruction to meet the needs of those 
who, although not intendmg to pursue a college course, 
nevertheless desire to cover some of the work offered in 
colleges and universities. The course in graduate work 
occupies one year, and completes the work of the first 
year in college. 

Mr. Somes' work has been warmly commended by par- 
ents and by school boards wherever he has taught, and he 
has been recognized as having '•' a peculiar genius for 
teaching and for making progress without fret or friction." 
In the summer of 1900 he was informed by Prof. C. F. 
Emerson, dean of Dartmouth College: "All the 
prizes in the Latin and Greek languages during the 
past year, as announced at commencement, were won 
by pupils who fitted under your instruction." He has 
letters of like commendatory character from E. Ben- 
jamin Andrews, LL. D., formerly president of Brown 
University, and from Prof. Le Baron R. Briggs, dean 
of Harvard University. 

Mr. Somes is a member of the Masonic Fraternity and 
of the Congregational Church ; on national questions 
has always voted the Republican ticket, and on local 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 125 

issues always for the best men — who have usually 
been Republicans. He married, April 18, 1878, Miss 
Nellie Augusta Dodge, of Wiscasset, and has three 
children : George Frederick, born June 28, 1880, and 
who was graduated at Dartmouth College, class of 1901 : 
Helen Dodge, born April i, 1882, now a special student 
in music in Wells College, Aurora : and Mary Averill, 
born Aug. 10, 1885, and who is preparing, probably, 
for Vassar College. 

Howard Vinton Stackpole. 

Leaving college at the close of his freshman year, 
he formed, in the autumn of 1875, ^ partnership with 




J. S, Macomber, under the iirm name of J. S. Macom- 
ber & Co., for carrying on a business in shoe manufac- 
turers' supplies, heels, soles, etc., at 214 Union Street, 
Lynn, Mass. In this business he continued nearly 



126 Bowdoin College, Class of "77. 

seven years, until April 20, 18S2, when the partnership 
was dissolved, and he returned to Maine. On Dec. 15, 
1883, he opened a retail boot and shoe store, at 
99 Maine Street, Brunswick, where he has ever since 
been in business. His residence is at 4 Green Street. 
He is a member of tlie Brun^wi42k Club, and reports 
himself as " usually a Republican, but not wedded to 
any partv." For recreation he turns to the driving of 
a good borse or the hearing of good music. 

Mr. Stackpole married. April 13, 1896, Miss Cora J. 
Curtis, daughter of George Curtis, Esq., of Brunswick, 
who died Feb. 21, 1900. He married, the second time, 
April 23, 1901, Miss Leila E. MacFarland, of Poland, 
Ohio. Thev have no children. 

Lewis Alfred Stanwood. 

Ix the autumn following graduation Mr. Stanwood 
removed to the West, and in various parts of the West 
and the Southwest his life has been passed ever since. 
During the tirst vears he was principal of the high 
school in Bav Citv, Mich. He then became principal 
of the public schools in West Bend, Wis., where he re- 
mained three vears. He then determined upon the 
study of law, and in Jul}*, 1881, removing to Iowa City, 
he entered the law department of the Iowa State Uni- 
versity, at which institution he was graduated with the 
degree of LL. B.. June 20, 18S2. After a trip through 
the South he tinally settled in the fall of 1882 in Van 
Buren, x\rk., forming a law partnership with James H. 
Huckleberrv, ex-United States prosecuting attorney for 
the district and ex-circuit judge, under the tirm name of 
Huckleberrv & Stanwood. He was also corporation 
counsel and attornev for the Yixn Buren & Arkansas 
Southern Railroad Company. He remained there, 
however, onlv about two vears. 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 127 

Writing for the present report Mr. Stanwood says : 
"In 1884 I went to Texas: thence from Denison, 
Texas, to Colorado on foot, a nice little summer con- 
stitutional across Indian Territory and Kansas, and 
hnally took government land in the southwest corner of 
Kansas. But after devoting four years to the trial I 
gave up the attempt to make a farm, because of the 
lack of rain there, and April 22, 1889, I went to Okla- 
homa Territory and helped to boom Guthrie, its capital, 
undl Sept. 22, 1891, when I again took up one hun- 
dred and sixty acres of government land near Baker, 
about fifty miles east of Guthrie, upon which as a 
farmer I have ever since resided." 

Politically Mr. Stanwood reports himself "a mug- 
wump." He was elected clerk of the School Board of 
District No. 40 of Lincoln County, Oklahoma Terri- 
tory, in July, 1901, for a term of three years. He 
married, May 20, 1900, Miss Rena E. Gates, of Win- 
held, Kan. They have no children. 

William Stephenson. 

After leaving college in his sophomore year Mr. 
Stephenson followed mercantile life for two years, when 
he began the study of medicine with Dr. S. H. Weeks, 
of Portland, Maine, attending lectures for two years at 
the Pordand School for Medical Instruction and the 
Medical School of Maine, at Brunswick. He passed the 
examination at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
New York City, receiving his degree from that institu- 
tion in 1880, having, in the meantime, served a year as 
house physician and surgeon at St. Peter's Hospital, 
Brooklyn, N. Y. He then returned to Portland, and 
began private practise, having an otiice at 622 Congress 
Street, until Sept. i, 1883, when he received an 
appointment as surgeon in the United States Army. 



128 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

For several years after his appointment to the army 
Dr. Stephenson served wholly in the West, much of 
the time in the extreme West. He was stationed suc- 
cessively at Dubuque, Iowa; Fort Omaha, Neb.; 
Fort Niobrara, Neb. ; Fort Riley, Kan. ; Fort Reno, 
I. T., and Camp Pilot Butte, Rock Springs, Wyo., re- 
maining at this latter post two years. He was then 
ordered to Fort Verde, Ariz., a delightful frontier 
cavalry post, fifty miles from the railroad. He passed 




the summer of 1889 traveling abroad, and the spring of 
1890 found him at his first Eastern post, Columbus 
Barracks, Ohio, with temporary duty at Fort Wayne, 
Mich., and Fort Thomas, Ky. In 1892 his orders sent 
him to Fort Porter in Buffalo, N. Y., then to Boise Bar- 
racks, Idaho, and to Vancouver Barracks, Wash. When 
the Spanish War broke out he was at Fort Sheridan, 111., 
and went with the Fourth Infantry to Tampa, Fla., ex- 
pecting to be ordered to Cuba, but being made a major 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 129 

of volunteers and brigade surgeon, he was sent to Chicka- 
mauga Park, and later left for Porto Rico with General 
Miles. He was on the staff of Gen. Fred. D. Grant, at 
Guayama, for several months, and was present at the 
evacuation of San Juan. His next detail was at 
Santiago, as medical inspector of that department. 

In the spring of 1899 Major Stephenson was sent 
North to the Army Building in New York City for 
fifteen months, but in July, 1900, he received orders to 
join General Chaffee, in China, as his staff surgeon, 
and for four months had charge of the United States 
General Hospital at Tien Tsin. Since January, 1901, 
he has been in the Philippines, being stationed at Cal- 
amba, Manila, Santa Ana, and Batangas, as medical 
inspector of the Third Separate Brigade, Department of 
Northern Philippines. 

Through the kindness of his sister. Miss Marion 
Stephenson, of Portland, we are able to give a few 
extracts from some of Major Stephenson's home letters 
— extracts which suggest the variety and interest of his 
experiences with our army in the East. Writing from 
Calamba, in February, 1901, he says: "Much of my 
recent trip was on horseback, but we walked over the 
mountains and natives carried our handbap"s. Alon(j the 
coast we traveled in Spanish steamers and launches, 
always having to anchor at a distance and paddel 
ashore through the surf in a banca, a dugout with 
bamboo outriggers on each side. Some roads were 
through jungles, and some through cocoanut groves, 
and some through mahogany and ebony forests. We 
were in the country of wild water buffalo, deer and 
boar, crocodiles, vampire bats as big as crows, lizards 
three feet long, and monkeys and parrots. We always 
had escorts of fifteen to twenty soldiers, but saw no ill- 
nature and were asked to weddings and dances." 

A later letter from the same place says: "I am 



130 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

still living in the priests' house, adjacent to the church 
and convent in which are the sick. The priests had 
trouble with the presidente and moved away, so we 
appropriated the buildings. After dinner the doctors 
and nurses and callers sit in the moonlight and watch the 
Southern Cross and other constellations from the big 
porch off the back of the second story, which is forty 
feet square, floored with bricks a foot square, and open 
to the sky, with balustrades on three sides. The view 
is charming, the bay a mile away, mountains and thick 
brush and timber everywhere. At a little distance no 
tropical effect is produced, bananas, bamboo, and low 
palms assisting in a landscape not unlike home — but I 
miss the wonderful Royal Palms of Cuba " 

From Batangas, November, 1901 : "I have the 
choicest quarters I have had outside of the United 
States ; a charming house on the Plaza, furnished 
sparely as most tropical houses are, near the band-stand, 
a most charming tropical climate and scenery, and I 
wish you all could enjoy it with me. Last evening we 
had a phonograph concert, gotten up by some hospital 
men, and to-morrow we are to have a dance, there being 
ten American ladies within reach ! " 

Under date of January 29 of the present year he 
writes : "I have never led such a strenuous life before 
as since General Bell took command of the provinces of 
Batangas and Laguna and established a ' reconcentrado ' 
system — • like that in Cuba and the Transvaal, but 
much more humane here. I have been ordered to 
supervise the vaccination of all natives in our depart- 
ment, and have twenty-eight surgeons working, with 
eighty-three native vaccinators, and so far they have 
vaccinated one hundred and fifty thousand natives ! " 

In the Manila Amei'tcan of March 13, 1902, is given 
an account of the vaccination in Major Stephenson's 
district, and 252,164 was the total ending with Feb- 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 131 

ruary. The natives were much opposed to the opera- 
tion. The American says that " the insurgents spread 
reports that the Americans were injecting poison into 
the Filipinos in order to kill them off. Another insur- 
recto theory was that the mark on the arm was made 
for the future identification of all natives that had ever 
been subjected to the power of the United States." 

George Ladd Thompson. 

After leaving college Mr. Thompson was, until 
Oct. I, 1878, an officer in the Asylum for the Insane, 




at Augusta, Maine, and subsequently he attended lectures 
for one term at the Boston University School of Medi- 
cme. In 1879 he determined upon a business career 
and established himself at Brunswick, Maine, where for 
nearly twenty years he carried on a large retail dry 
goods business, which he sold out in November, 1898. 



132 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

During these years Mr. Thompson identified himself 
with the social and political as well as the business 
interests of the town. He is a Republican and has twice 
served as chairman of the Republican Town Committee. 
He was lieutenant-colonel on the staff of Governor Bur- 
leigh from 1888 to 1892, and was commissary-general, 
with the rank of colonel, on the staff of Governor 
Powers. He was acting in this capacity when Maine's 
quota was enlisted for the war with Spain. He was 
one of the founders of the Brunswick Club and was 
elected its first president ; is a member of the Masonic 
Lodge, and past commander of Dunlap Commandery 
of Bath, Maine ; is past chancellor of Fort George 
Chapter, Knights of Pythias ; and for six years past a 
member of the Ancient and Honorable Artiller}'- Com- 
pany, of Boston, Mass. He was given the degree of 
A. B., out of course, at the Bowdoin Commencement 
of 1887. 

Mr. Thompson married, Dec. 28, 1881, Miss Amelia 
Folsom Boardman, of Brunswick. They have no 
children. 

George William Tillson. 

A PART of the year following graduation Mr. Tillson 
was principal of the grammar school at Thomaston, 
Maine ; during the school year 1878-79, was assistant 
principal of the Nichols Academy, Dudley, Mass. ; and 
in the fall of 1879 taught in Rumford, Maine. He 
then began in earnest the practise of his profession of 
civil engineer. In the spring of 1880 he was employed 
in connection with the sewerage system of Memphis, 
Tenn., having Metcalf and Sewall, both of '77, as as- 
sociates and companions in the work. In August of 
that year he undertook the preparation of plans and 
maps for the sewerage of Kalamazoo, Mich., and dur- 



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133 



ing the following summer he superintended the con- 
struction of the system which he had planned. In 
September, 1881, he accepted an offer to take charge 
of the construction of the Waring system of sewers at 
Omaha, Neb., and this was the beginning of a long resi- 
dence in that city. In October, 1881, he was appointed 
assistant city engineer of Omaha; in March, 1887, he 




was made city engineer, and this position, by appoint- 
ment and reappointment, he held until 1892. 

" In the early part of that year," Mr. Tillson writes, 
" I visited the island of Trinidad, British West Indies, 
for the purpose of examining the asphalt deposits of the 
celebrated Pitch Lake on the island. For the next 
three years I was engaged in private engineering and 
contract work in Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming. 
In 1895 I was appointed assistant engineer in the De- 
partment of City Works, Brooklyn, N. Y., having 



134 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

direct charge of the construction of all new pavements. 
When Brooklyn became a Borough of Greater New 
York I was continued in the same position in the De- 
partment of Highways. Have made a special study of 
asphalt with reference to its use in pavement construc- 
tion, and have been summoned several times to testify 
as an expert witness in asphalt law-suits in outside 
cities. My present position is particularly pleasant, as 
it involves about one-half of the time being spent in 
office work and the other half in driving about the city 
examining and directing the paving work as it is being 
carried out." Since the letter was written from which 
this extract is made Mr. Tillson has been advanced 
(April 16, 1902) to the position of chief engineer, 
Bureau of Highwavs, Borough of Brooklyn, N. Y. 
He has everywhere taken an active part in the or- 
ganizations connected with his profession. In Ne- 
braska he was first secretary and later president of the 
Nebraska Association of Engineers and Surve3^ors, and 
also chairman of the Committee on National Public 
Works for that association. In 1900 he was made 
president of the Brooklyn Engineers' Club, and at the 
present time is secretary of the American Society of 
Municipal Improvements, an organization made up of 
officials of the principal cities of this country and 
Canada. He is also a member of the iVmerican So- 
ciety of Civil Engineers. Before the Society of Munic- 
ipal Improvements he has read many papers, as : In 
1897, " Result of one year's work with a chemical lab- 
oratory for testing asphalts"; in 1898, " The relative 
value of paving materials " ; in 1899, " The life of pave- 
ments " ; in 1900, "The construction of asphalt pave- 
ments"; in 1901, "Pavement guaranties"; and has 
contributed articles to the Mtmicifal Journal and En- 
gineer of New York City on asphalt and on stone 
pavements. In September, 1900, he published through 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 135 

Messrs. John Wiley & Sons, New York, an octavo 
volume of 532 pages, on "Street Pavements and Pav- 
ing Materials." 

Politically Mr. Tillson " has always been and is now 
a Republican in State and national elections, but votes 
independently upon all local and municipal issues." For 
indoor recreation he turns to whist, being a member 
of the Brooklyn Whist Club, while out in the open he 
takes to the bicycle and is almost among the record 
holders in long distance rides. He is also a member 
of the Midwood Club, Flatbush. 

Mr. Tillson married, Oct. 5, 1887, Miss Mary Eliza- 
beth Abbott, of Lancaster, N. H., and has a daughter, 
Madalene Abbott, born Sept. 20, 1888, who is prepar- 
ing for Wellesle}^ College at the Packer Collegiate 
Institute, Brooklyn. 

Henry Dwight Wiggin. 

In the autumn following graduation Mr. Wiggin 
began the study of medicine in the Harvard Medical 
School, but early in 1878 relinquished medicine, which 
was not altogether attractive to him, and returned to 
Maine to become a farmer. His farm in Winthrop was 
one of the best in Kennebec County, and among the 
finest in the State, containing three hundred acres about 
equally divided between tillage, wood, and pasturage. 
Naturally one of the most beautiful spots in Maine, much 
had been done for it by cultivation. Here he remained 
nearly eight years, but in the spring of 1886, governed 
chiefly by a wish to give his children better school privi- 
leges than Winthrop afforded, he abandoned farming 
and removed to Boston, Mass. There he was for a 
time connected with W. L. Sturtevant, lumber dealer 
and manufacturer, at 322 Border Street, East Boston, 
but he soon determined to enter business for himself. 



136 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

From the first his business career has been a successful 
one — of late years conspicuously so. He has made a 
specialty of hardwood lumbers, and to-day he stands 
among the most respected and influential wholesale 
lumbermen of New England. In February of the pres- 
ent year he was elected president of the Massachusetts 
wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association. In its report 
of Mr. Wiggin's election to this office the Luinhernian^s 
Review gives a sketch of his career saying that he 




entered " the lumber business at Boston about fifteen 
years ago. With no previous knowledge of lumber he 
was obliged to cast about for himself and discover just 
what class of lumber he could handle to best advantage. 
Therefore, his first five years was a sort of formative 
period. Then he squared away for real business, and 
has since placed himself in the front rank as a success- 
ful lumberman. He is a resourceful, commercial tacti- 
cian, generous and broad-minded, and is eminently 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 137 

fitted for the post of honor to which he has been 
chosen." 

Mr. Wiggin is also a member of the National Hard- 
wood Lumber Dealers' Association ; of the National 
Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, being the 
New England member of the Board of Arbitration of 
this association ; and is the delegate from the Massa- 
chusetts Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association to the 
Boston Associated Board of Trade. His office is at 
89 State Street, Boston, and he lives in the neighboring 
town of Medford, where he is a member of the Medford 
Club and of the Masonic Fraternity. 

He married, June 5. 1878, Miss Mary L. Sturtevant, 
of Winthrop, and has two children : Henry D wight, Jr., 
born Sept. 5, 1879, ^^ whom was awarded the class cup 
at our triennial reunion ; and Frances, born June 6, 
1884. Henry D wight, Jr., was graduated at Harvard 
University in the class of 1899, having completed the 
four years' academic course in three years : and he will 
be graduated at the Harvard Law School in June of the 
present year. 



I have studied eight or nine wise 700 rds to speak to you. 

Much Ado about Nothing: iii. 2. 



A Symposium. 



One paragraph of the class blank requested each 
member to give " a statement of his views regarding 
the questions of expansion, colonization, etc., resulting 
from the American-Spanish War, and of the national 
policy to be followed in dealing with remote posses- 
sions." It was added, however, that "in answering 
this inquiry members are not expected nor 'desired to 
confine themselves, necessarily, to the problems above 
suggested. They may give their views such form and 
such extent as the}^ may wish." 



A Symposium. 



W. G. Beale. — I am a rtrm believer in the so-called 
"expansion" policy of the government, and approve 
the course so far adopted in dealing with " the colo- 
nies." 

P. G. Brown. — While not in favor of colonization or 
expansion under ordinary circumstances, I feel that, 
having acquired the islands as a result of the Spanish 
War, there is no other course to pursue. 

x\s colonies of this country I believe that the}^ should 
be entitled to all the privileges of our territories as to 
free trade, etc. 

J. E. Chapman. — I believe it is the duty of the 
American people to accord to the Filipinos, at the 
earliest practicable moment, the right of absolute 
independence and self-government. We cannot be 
democratic in America and despotic in Asia. The 
Filipinos have a right to their own country, a right to 
govern themselves, a right to determine their own 
destiny, and the spirit that demands their subjugation 
by force is out of harmony with the great traditions and 
principles that have heretofore guided the life of this 
Republic. 

C. E. Cobb. — The American-Spanish War revealed 
to all nations that the United States was a world-power, 
and the current of this awakened consciousness has 
already set very strongly toward expansion in every 
form. The spirit of aggrandizement once fostered in a 
nation brooks no barrier save force and scruples not at 

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142 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

cost of men nor material. Therein lies our country's 
danger in aggressive expansion and colonization. Con- 
servatism is needed. Brilliancy feeds on its own mar- 
row and becomes self-consuming. Sun and water 
make vegetation — the sun alone leaves an arid desert 
— and applying this simile to the two factors in our 
material prosperity, capital and labor, every effort 
should be made so to blend them that each may receive 
its equitable share. The smothered cry, heard all over 
our fair land to-day, of " Water ! Water ! " is intensely 
significant. 

Our remote possessions are ours, body and branch, 
by right of conquest and purchase, and the question is : 
"What are we going to do with them? "We really 
don't want them all ; we hardly dare reduce our hold- 
ings by cession, and we won't give them free reins to 
go it alone — and there you are ! 

E. M. Cousins. — While believing that this nation 
has needlessly and foolishly been placed in the position 
where it finds itself to-day, I see nothing now but to 
try to overrule this folly to the good of those peoples 
with whom we have been brought into new relation- 
ships. I believe a portion of our leaders are making a 
sincere effort in this direction, and that they should be 
supported by the conservative element among us, lest 
the "jingoes" plunge us into still more humiliating 
situations than now exist. 

F. H. Dillingham. — I think we were better off 
without the new possessions, but now we have them we 
must keep them and educate the people. 

E. E. Dunbar. — Nations, like individuals, have re- 
sponsibilities thrust upon them and meet questions they 
cannot evade. A nation as rich, powerful, and en- 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 143 

lightened as our own cannot expect to live within itself. 
"To whom much is given of him much is required." 
See to it that our expansion does not presage the begin- 
ning of retrogression. Let us profit by the history of 
older nations and avoid the pitfalls that ensnared them. 
Give our dependent people the largest measure of free- 
dom they are capable of appreciating, under a form of 
government modeled as nearly as possible after " a 
government of the people, for the people, and by the 
people." 

C. T. Evans. — I believe in the general policy of 
the McKinley administration. I am sorry we have the 
Philippines, but as they have come to us through the 
fortunes of war, I have the utmost confidence in the 
ability of the Yankee nation to deal with all questions 
arising from the American-Spanish War. 

J. K. Greene. — I am in general accord with the 
course of the administration. Having established free 
government for ourselves, the time has come when we 
should exert our influence, and, if need be, our power, 
to prevent the undue oppression of our neighbors. The 
principle that no man should live unto himself alone 
should apply to nations as well as to individuals. In 
Cuba we have not only put an end to the immense loss 
of life occasioned by Spanish oppression, but by our 
methods have made Havana one of the healthiest cities 
in the world, and Cuba has now a full measure of self- 
government. 

I believe we should steadily pursue the course in- 
augurated in the Philippines, unmoved by the clamor of 
the anti-imperialist, whether private citizen or senator. 
The inhabitants should be educated under American 
methods and guidance, the different islands should be 
brought into close commercial and other relations, so 



144 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

that they shall have common interests, and should be 
given self-government so far and so fast as they are 
fitted for it- 
It is to be expected that self-seeking politicians, and 
persons who prefer notoriety to reputation, will continue 
to shriek out "imperialism," and frantically dance to 
the music of their senseless outcry, but the great body 
of the American people are moved only by the sense of 
duty and patriotism, and having accomplished more in 
three years for the improvement of the condition of 
these people than the Spanish wrought out in as many 
centuries, we shall continue to shape matters for the 
best interests of our outlying territories until they are as 
independent and prosperous as ourselves. 

W. C. Greene. — I have heartily endorsed the 
course of President McKinley from the beginning of 
the Spanish War, believing there was no other way for 
such a nation as ours. From a selfish point of view it 
might have been better to let colonies alone, but in con- 
sideration of the world's needs, the United States should 
now become a world's power and the leading nation of 
the world. I think that our ships should carry our 
exports to all parts of the earth, through the new canal 
under United States control ; that our civilization should 
reach all countries, teaching all nations universal free- 
dom, Christianity, education, protection from disease, 
etc. ; that no foreigner should share in our franchise 
until he understands and appreciates our system of 
popular government, either at home or in our colonies ; 
that all colonies, when qualified, should have self- 
government. 

F. H. Hargraves. — I am somewhat of an expan- 
sionist in national affairs. I would not, if it were 
possible, recede or retire from any stand taken or 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 145 

possessions acquired in the American-Spanish War, but 
rather would meet the condidons and questions as they 
may arise. I believe that their attempted, and in the 
end successful, solving will broaden and educate us 
nadonally and uldmately result in moral and material 
good to all concerned. 

C. E. Knight. — Under existing circumstances I 
think the policy of the administration is a good one. 

G. T. Little. —I think that the purchase of the 
Philippine Islands was a great mistake. I do not be- 
lieve that a true republic can govern colonies wisely 
when their inhabitants are of the so-called inferior 
races. Our experience with the Indians in the West 
and the negroes in the South seems to me to show this 
conclusively. Furthermore, the temptadon to use such 
dependencies for our own advantage materially will 
always be present and act as a moral snare to the 
nadon. It is as disreputable as it is easy for a guardian 
to get rich at his ward's expense. Having, however, 
taken possession of the islands, it is our duty by force 
of arms to establish some stable form of government 
and then allow them to control themselves. It is folly 
to try to Americanize their inhabitants. We may teach 
them English, but their laws, insdtudons, and customs 
must condnue substandally as they have been for the 
last two centuries. 

G, H. Marquis. — As to the West Indies, get them 
all into the union of States as fast as expedient, and let 
the constitution follow the flag. 

As to the Philippines, let them go as soon as they 
can govern themselves properly. 

S. A. Melcher. —I regret exceedingly that these 
quesdons have arisen. I believe that our territory was 



146 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

ample and that not a square inch should be added to it. 
Porto Rico and Hawaii are now ours beyond question, 
and to that we must submit, but I hope that Cuba is to 
remain independent. Our occupation of the Philippines, 
I trust, will end when we have prepared them for self- 
government. 

The war with Spain has shown how we are handi- 
capped by political interference with the administration 
of the army and navy. The play of politics prevents 
preparation for war in time of peace, and when war 
comes political and other influences, rather than merit, 
too often determine leadership. With peace comes the 
sounding of trumpets by little big men — and their 
wives — and wretched courts of inquiry for political 
effect. 

I believe the remedy for these ills is not in mugwum- 
pery and anti-imperialism, but in strong partizanship 
with honest independence within the party. Every '77 
man who attends his party caucus and votes there and 
on election day for the best man available, and refuses 
to vote for an improper candidate, is fighting his 
country's battles just as loyally as the man who fought 
at San Juan. 

F. A. Mitchell. — Generally speaking, I am op- 
posed to " expansion," especially to the acquisition of 
distant lands, like the Philippines, believing that they 
may eventually lead us into complications with Euro- 
pean nations. The growing commercial supremacy of 
this country has already excited much jealousy among 
those nations, the outcome of which cannot be foreseen. 
In case of war with a European power our distant pos- 
sessions would probably be attacked first, and their re- 
tention would prove expensive both in money and in 
lives. 

I am also inclined to think that the possession of any 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 147 

lands whose climate is radically different from our own ; 
whose people are of a different race, partly or wholly 
barbarous, and hating, perhaps, their new masters; 
whose natural productions, however valuable, are also 
radically different from our own, requiring the local 
residence of our people to study their characteristics 
and personally superintend their growth,— is not to be 
desired. 

Americans succeed in their business because they 
give it their personal attendon. Our new possessions 
must be colonized with American people to hold them, 
and make them valuable. In a land like the Philip- 
pines they must not only fight a hostile native population 
for many years, but also a climate which to most is 
debilitating and even deadly. 

The question is : "Is the game worth the candle ?" 
We had to take the Philippines, but they may become a 
" white elephant " on our hands. 

C. W. Morrill. — I have no very pronounced 
views upon these topics, but am inclined to think the 
United States would be better off, on the whole, with- 
out its foreign possessions. But since we have them, as 
the unexpected result of the American-Spanish War, 
we must make the best of them, and I feel that the 
government is dealing with the vexed quesdons incident 
thereto as judiciously as could be expected. 

C. L. NiCKERSON. — I am in sympathy with the ad- 
ministradon in its manner of dealing with a very diffi- 
cult and unwelcome problem. 

C. A. Perry. — For the past two years I have been 
a member of the Socialist Party. As I look back I can 
see that my growth towards socialism began many years 
ago. The observation and study of the poor in our own 



148 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

and in other countries aroused in me a burning sense of 
injustice against a system which permitted the strong to 
oppress the weak, the rich to oppress the poor. I was 
led to study our present economic system, and I found 
that it not only permitted injustice, but even necessi- 
tated it. 

All wealth is produced by labor, and the wage and 
profit system is based on the exploitation of labor. It is 
impossible that one man should gain a profit unless an- 
other loses a part of what he produces. Whether the 
statute law allows such exploitation or not, morally it 
is systematic robbery. I could not longer support a 
system which compels a man to be dishonest in order to 
succeed in business, a system which compels each man 
to fight his neighbor for his daily bread. 

Socialism means cooperation, the working of all and 
each for the welfare of all and each. It stands for an 
economic system of production and distribution, whereby 
all workers will receive the full product of what they 
produce instead of a small portion, as under the present 
capitalistic system. 

The inability of the capitalist system to regulate the 
distribution of wealth — having produced, on the one 
hand, a small number of excessively rich, and, on the 
other, a huge majority of needy poor — is condemned 
as tried and found wanting. Socialism declares that 
the State is the only power capable of justly distributing 
the wealth of the State, and proposes that it shall own 
and operate for the interest of the whole people all 
industries and utilities of a public nature. The great 
principles which underlie socialism are brotherhood 
and love. The principles which underlie capitalism 
are competition and hate. The spirit of socialism 
makes for peace ; the spirit of capitalism makes for 
war. I declare m^^self an opponent of war — and, 
therefore, I am a Socialist. 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 149 

L. H, Reed. — We have acquired our island posses- 
sions — that is setded. "What shall we do with them ? " 
is the quesdon that we have to setde. It is too early to 
determine definitely what the ultimate disposidon shall 
be. We should endeavor to govern them for the good 
of the inhabitants. When they are capable of self- 
government they should have it ; but they are, in my 
judgment, not qualified for it now, and will not be for 
a long time. I do not favor any form of government 
for them, looking eventually to statehood. 

J. A. Roberts. — I favor in the main the policy 
pursued by President McKinley. I favor giving the 
people of those islands all educadonal advantages possi- 
ble. I would connect them closely to us commercially 
and industrially. Our control over them should be for 
their benefit and not for our own selfish interests. 

W. H. Sanborn. — The great possibilities of the 
South, both in material and intellectual ways, will soon 
be known to those who have hitherto learned little and 
cared less for the facts in the matter. Most of those 
who live in the other parts of our country have known 
only that the South was in the throes of labor to bring 
forth a plan for the life of our colored friend and 
cidzen. The newspaper talk of the social status of the 
negro is all talk so far as the people of the South are 
concerned. There is no question about the matter 
here, as his status is well known, well defined, and 
equally well accepted by both black and white. The 
negro has many fine characterisdcs. He is capable of 
rapid improvement in intellect, and in character which 
he absorbs by imitation of his white brother. He is 
kind and faithful as a dog. He is much like a good 
dog and needs almost as much attendon to keep him in 
the right way. He will watch for you and look after 



150 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

your interests as he sees them, and do it faithfully, and 
he will betray your trust, as would a dog, when his 
animal nature gets the better of him. Some few will 
take a good advanced education, but they are rare and 
noteworthy exceptions. The good people play into the 
hands of designing politicians, and wrong the negro by 
educating him beyond the needs of his station, intel- 
lectually, leaving his moral and higher needs unpro- 
vided for. The white man is giving to the negro more 
than he ought to have, because his moral nature is not 
advanced enough to balance his intellectual status. He 
is one sided and growing to the wrong side. Educate 
the negro or the white man intellectually, and neglect 
the moral and spiritual side of his nature, and you are 
educating a rogue — the better educated, the worse 
criminal. As to the final settlement of the negro ques- 
tion I can see but one logical outcome — amalgamation. 
This is, of course, distasteful to the white man. To the 
manhood of the South, it is a horrible nightmare of 
impossibility, and yet they are helping it on with mad 
haste. 

C. B. Seabury. — Obligations and responsibilities 
have come to us unbidden, which may not be lightly 
put aside. In the abstract, I am opposed to the acquisi- 
tion of distant territory, but I am equally firm in the 
conviction that we have as a nation certain duties to 
perform from which we should not be swerved by any 
bug-a-boo in the guise of imperialism or by the fear of 
laying ourselves open to the charge of inconsistency in 
our policy. A child has been left on our doorstep, and 
the least we can do is to see that in some manner it is 
protected until it is capable of taking care of itself. The 
question of adoption is another matter. I am inclined 
to believe that we shall find it the wisest policy to con- 
trol and educate it till it becomes of age, and then give 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 151 

it our blessing and its time. At present our duty is 
clear. 

H. H. Smith. — I am an expansionist. 1 am most 
heartily in sympathy with the policy of holding on to 
our new possessions until such time as they are able to 
take care of themselves. I believe it to be the duty, as 
well as the high privilege, of the American nadon to so 
lead and help these peoples that in time they may be- 
come free and independent. We cannot shirk this 
great responsibility. We are entering upon a new era 
and must honesUy and fearlessly take up the burden 
that has come to us. It is destiny, and the whole 
world expects us to do our duty, to do what no other 
nation in the world can do — to show that we can do 
right because it is right, to do all in our power to help 
these peoples to help themselves, without any desire to 
enrich ourselves or enlarge our territory. 

A. Somes. — We have a grand opportunity to spread 
our own civilization to less enlightened people, and the 
reahzation of our opportunity must have a broadening 
and steadying effect upon our own national character. 
The enormous cost of maintaining our position as a 
world-power will be a severe tax on us, both in money 
and in men, and if not met with calm judgment and 
careful management will tend to bring our people to the 
position of the "common classes" in European coun- 
tries. This whole matter seems to me not a matter of 
expediency, but of destiny. Our education, wealth, and 
character fit us to become one of the important powers 
of the world, and we cannot shirk our evident duty. 
The only quesdon is : " How can we best meet it? " 

H. V. Stackpole. — We should make States of 
Cuba — when Cuba wants to come in — and of Porto 



152 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

Rico now. But the Philippines present a tough prob- 
lem. We shall be obliged to keep them for a time. Why 
cannot we rule them the same as the Dutch and Eng- 
lish do their eastern possessions ? 

L. A. Stanwood. — I favor expansion and coloniza- 
tion in so far as they may create and increase the con- 
sumption of American products, but with the proviso that 
the more wealthy portion of the country shall bear the 
most of the expense of making these new markets, — 
i. e., in a way, paying back to the man with the hoe his 
long-standing account for services rendered to those who 
hold the largest blocks of accumulated wealth. 

Deal with these eastern races as our fathers dealt 
with the Indians ; if they are no good and won't reform, 
kill them off, in accordance with the divine scheme of 
nature — the survival of the fittest. 

G. L. Thompson. — I believe that the United States 
should hold the Philippine Islands until they are in a 
condition to govern themselves, and when that time 
comes should allow them the same measure of freedom 
which we exacted from Great Britain by force of arms. 

G. W. TiLLSON. — I am fully in accord with the 
government in its present colonial policy, and have 
always agreed with its action in regard to the West 
Indian Islands. But I think the country would have 
been better off if Dewey had sailed away and left the 
Spanish to settle their own troubles after he had carried 
out his orders and destroyed their fleet in Manila Bay. 

I think that Porto Rico should be treated as a terri- 
tory and governed as such. As to the Philippines, I do 
not believe that events have sufficiently developed to 
permit any one, in the United States, at least, to form 
at the present time an intelligent opinion as to their 
ultimate treatment. 



/ hope 
For quiet days, fair issue, and long life 
With such love as 'tis no7C'. 

— The Tempest; iv. i. 



Marriages in the Class 



Marriages in the Class. 



Oct. 9, 1874. — * Leander Hathaway Moulton and 

Laura Eleanor Whitney. 
Nov. 22, 1876. — Edward Everett Dunbar and Mary 

Annie Day. 
Dec. 24, 1877. — Henry Herbert Smith and * Eliza- 
beth Longfellow. 
April 18, 1878. — Albert Sornes and Nellie Augusta 

Dodge. 
June 5, 1878. — Henr}^ Dwight Wiggin and Mar}^ L. 

Sturtevant. 
Dec. 24, 1878. — Charles Edwin Cobb and Annie 

Carroll Bradford. 
June 10, 1880. — Charles Egbert Knight and Carrie B. 

Dodge. 
June 29, 1880. — Addison Munroe Sherman and Kate 

Louise Luther. 
Aug. 18, 1880. — * Charles Edwin Scribner and Annie 

Eugenia Thompson. 
Oct. 20, 1880. — - Charles Thomas Evans and Susie 

Strickler Greene. 
Oct. 26, 1880. — Lewis Henr}^ Reed and Abbie Paul 

Sanders. 
Jan. 19, 1881. — Frank Asa Mitchell and Anna L. 

Flint. 
June 10, 1881. — Edgar Millard Cousins and * Ella 

Nickels Burnham. 
June 13, 1881. — Willett Herbert Sanborn and Mel- 

litta Lee Blume. 
Aug. II, 188 1. — Charles Bailey Seabur}^ and Ruth 

Leslie Williams. 
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156 Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 

Aug. 23, 1881.^ — ■ Charles Lendol Nickerson and Ella 

M. Graves. 
Aug. 24, 1881. — John Alfred Roberts and Carrie 

Laura Ann Pike. 
Sept. 6, 1881. — Samuel Russell Bearce Pingree and 

Sarah Putney Jones. 
Oct. II, 1881. — George Arthur Holbrook and Lucia 

Austin. 
Dec. 28, i88t. — George Ladd Thompson and Amelia 

Folsom Boardman. 
March 8, 1882. — David Blin Fuller and Clara Augusta 

Wilson. 
June 14, 1882. — William Titcomb Cobb and Lucy 

Callie Banks. 
March 27, 1883.— James Wingate Sewall and Harriet 

Sterling Moor. 
June 6, 1883. — Frank Herbert Crocker and Lucy 

Haskell Crane. 
Sept. 26, 1883. — Edgar Millard Cousins and Ella 

Maria Burnham. 
Feb. 25, 1884. — Charles Harrington and M.Josephine 

Jones. 
April 3, 1884. — Samuel Appleton Melcher and Julia 

Harwood. 
April 14, 1884. — Charles Wyman Morse and * Hattie 

Bishop Hussey. 
Dec. 18, 1884. — George Thomas Little and Lillie 

Thayer Wright Lane. 
May 13, 1885. — Phineas Henry Ingalls and Mary 

Helen Beach. 
Nov. 17, 1886. — George Henry Marquis and Phebe 

Harriet Kelsey. 
June 30, 1887. — Carroll Willie Morrill and Jennie 

Lizzie Crockett. 
Oct. 5, 1887. — George William Tillson and Mary 

Elizabeth Abbott. 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 157 

June 6, 1888. — William Chute Greene and Sarah 

Eliza Ripley. 
Aug. II, 1888. — Robert Edwin Peary and Josephine 

Diebitsche. 
Aug. 22, 1888. — Orlando Marrett Lord and Caroline 

Edna Jenkins. 
Sept. 10, 1888. — William Andrew Golden and Jose- 
phine L. Graves. 
June 19, 1889. — William Perry and Lucy Daniels 

Sutton. 
Dec. 12, 1889. — Joseph Knight Greene and Frances 

Lillian Newton. 
Sept. 28, 1892. — Frank Hobart Hargraves and Nellie 

Maria Lord. 
Oct. 17, 1893. — * Edwin Judson Pratt and Susanne 

Wheeler. 
Nov. 15, 1893. — Frederick Henry Dillingham and 

* Helen Alexander Ganson. 
April. 13, 1896. — Howard Vinton Stackpole and Cora 

J. Curtis. 
March 24, 1897. — Henry Herbert Smith and Julia 

Brown Longfellow. 
Nov. 3, 1897. — Frederick Henry Dillingham and 

Susy Ganson Ferguson. 
May 20, 1900. — Lewis Alfred Stanwood and Rena 

E. Gates. 
April 23, 1901. — Howard Vinton Stackpole and Leila 

E. MacFarland. 
June 18, 1901. — Charles Wyman Morse and Clem- 

ence Cowles Dodge. 



For then, and not till then, he felt himself, 
And found the blessedness of being little. 
And to add greater honors to his age. 

— Henry VIII. : 



Children of the Class 



Children of the Class. 



Jan. 


13. 


. 1878, 


Sept. 


5' 


1879. 


Dec. 


10, 


1879. 


June 


28, 


1880. 


March 


6, 


1881. 


May 


4' 


1881. 


Aug. 


10, 


1881. 


Oct. 


15. 


1881. 


Nov. 


3, 


1881. 


Dec. 


31. 


1881. 


April 


I, 


1882. 


Ma}' 


6, 


1882. 


May 


15' 


1882. 


June 


26, 


1882. 


March 


13' 


1883. 


April 


9' 


1883. 


Oct. 


I, 


1883. 


Nov. 


19' 


1883. 


Dec. 


II, 


1883. 


Jan. 


15' 


1884. 


Feb. 


12, 


1884. 


March 


3' 


1884. 


April 


7' 


1884. 


April 


8, 


1884. 


June 


6, 


1884. 


July 


6, 


1884. 


July 


18, 


1884. 


Oct. 


17' 


1884. 


Jan. 


10, 


1885. 



- Mabel Annie Dunbar. 

- Henry Dwight Wiggin, Jr., C7((ss 

Boy. 

- Harold Everett Dunbar. 

- George Frederick Somes. 

- Agnes Longfellow Smith. 

- Laura Bradford Cobb. 

■ James Munroe Knight. 
Martha Houston Evans. 
Mary Luretta Reed. 

- Jessie Harwood Scribner. 
Helen Dodge Somes. 

* Edwin Hill Seabury. 
Elizabeth Purdy Sherman. 
Josephine Carr Sanborn. 
Alice Lucinda Dunbar. 

• Martha Banks Cobb. 

* Gertrude Louise Mitchell. 
Richard Williams Seabury. 
John James Houston Evans. 

* Gertrude Burd Sherman. 
James Wingate Sew^all, Jr. 
Mary Agnes Cobb. 
Philip Seabury Smith. 
Martha Sanders Reed. 
Frances Wiggin. 
Charles Edwin Scribner. 

* John Chapman Cousins. 
Gertrude Elaine Sanborn. 
Luc}^ Harwood Melcher. 

161 



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Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 



Jan. 


26, 


1885.- 


March 


5. 


1885. 


June 


12, 


1885. 


July 


18, 


1885.- 


Aug. 


10, 


1885- 


Aug. 


19' 


1885. 


Oct. 


2, 


1885. 


Nov. 


20, 


1885. 


Nov. 


15' 


1885. 


Dec. 


17' 


1885. 


June 


9' 


1886. 


June 


10, 


1886. 


Nov. 


2, 


1886. 


Feb. 


I, 


1887. 


Feb. 


13. 


1887. 


April 


19 


1887. 


May 


29, 


1887. 


Aug. 


24, 


1887. 


Sept. 


II, 


1887. 


Oct. 


2 


1887. 


Dec. 


5, 


1887. 


Jan. 


18 


1888. 


Feb. 


22 


1888. 


March 


2 


1888. 


March 


17 


1888. 


May 


24 


1888. 


July 


II, 


1888. 


Sept. 


20 


1888. 


Oct. 


7 


, 1888. 


May 


4 


, 1889. 


June 


21 


, 1889. 


Dec. 


6 


, 1889. 


Jan. 


20 


, 1890. 


Feb. 


17 


, 1890 


Nov. 


21 


, 1890 


Dec. 


19 


, 1890 



Grace Margaret Sherman. 
Charles Pratt Harrington. 
Margaret Longfellow Sanborn. 
Elizabeth Nelson Pingree. 
Mary Averill Somes. 

* Annie Greene Evans. 
Rachel Thayer Little. 
Thaddeus Blaine Roberts. 
Julia Lydia Crocker. 
Benjamin Wyman Morse. 

* Phineas Ingalls. 
Caroline Stockbridge Reed. 

■ Harold Bearce Pingree. 
Irene Cousins. 

■ Elizabeth Appleton Melcher. 

- Ruth Bliss Little. 

•James Leventhorpe Sanborn. 
Sydney Marquis. 
Elma Lucile Reed. 

■ Katharine Moor Sewall. 
Lena Margretta Cobb. 

- Erwin Albert Morse. 

- Sarah Fitield Evans. 

- Marguerita Carillo Harnngton. 

■ David Evans Crocker. 
Edgar Fuller Cousins. 

■ * Sarah Clarke Sherman. 

■ Madalene Abbott Tillson. 

- Virginia Hannah Sewall. 

- Helen Spofford Pingree. 

- Fanny Marquis. 

- Florence Louise Sherman. 

- Harry Ayer Golden. 

- * Stephen Greene Evans. 

- Mellen Howard Pingree. 

- Harry F. Morse. 



Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 163 

Jan. 5, 1891. — Violet Marquis. 

April 28, 1891.— George Tappan Little. 

May 16, 1891. — Winthrop Stephenson Greene. 

July 16, 1891. — Anna West Cobb. 

Nov. 3, 1891. — Eugene Sandray Harrington. 

Dec. 17, 1 891. — George Kline Scribner. 

Jan. 10, 1892. — Mary Longfellow Cousins. 

April 27, 1892. — Catherine Louise Sherman. 

Au"-. 16, 1892. — Julian Seward Marquis. 

Sept. 12, 1893. — Marie Ahnighito Peary. 

Jan. 4, 1894. — Maurice Cobb. 

June 18, 1894. — Charles Thomas Evans, Jr. 

July 15, 1894. — Abbie Louise Fuller. 

July 26, 1894.— Herbert Burnham Cousins. 

Au<'-. 8, 1894. — Hobart Lord Hargraves. 

Aug. 26, 1894. — x\rthur Edward Pingree. 

Dec. 22, 1894.— Marjorie Mitchell. 

March 3, 1895.— Ruth Shirley Morrill. 

April 5, 1895. — William Mason Bradley Lord. 

July 18, 1895. — Edwin Judson Pratt. 

Dec. 25, 1895. — Noel Charlton Little. 

Feb. 28, 1896. — Anna Elsie Morse. 

Sept. 19, 1896. — Harriet Sydrrey Sewall. 

Sept. 30, 1896. — Carlyle Marquis. 

Dec. 2, 1896. — Hide Wilson Fuller. 

March 10, 1897. — Gordon Swett Hargraves. 

Oct. I, 1898. — Sanford Burnham Cousins. 

Jan. 7, 1899. — * Francine Peary. 

Sept. 7, 1899. — Thelma Marquis. 



/ have good cheer at home ; and I pray you all go with me. 

— Merry Wives of Windsor : iii. 2. 



Addresses of the Class 



Addresses of the Class. 



W. G. Beale . 

E. H. Blake . 
O. Brinkerhoff . 
P. G. Brown 

J. E. Chapman . 

C. E. Cobb . . 
W. T. Cobb . 

E. M. Cousins . 

F. H. Crocker . 
F. H. Dillingham 

E. E. Dunbar . 

C. T. Evans 

D. B. Fuller . 
D. D. Gilman 
W. A. Golden . 

J. K. Greene 

W. C. Greene . 
S. A. Giirdjian 

F. H. Hargraves 
C. Harrington . 

G. A. Holbrook 
P. H. Ingalls . 



718 The Temple, La Salle and 

Monroe Streets, Chicago, 111. 
Bangor, Maine. 
Not known. 
218 Middle Street, Portland, 

Maine. 
31 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, 

Mass. 
Gardiner, Maine. 
Rockland, Maine. 
Thomaston, Maine. 
Gardiner, Maine. 
76 West 85th Street, New York, 

N. Y. 
24 Egleston Street, Jamaica Plain, 

Mass. 
428 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 

Pa. 
Eureka, Kan. 
Brunswick, Maine. 
102 Lancaster Street, Portland, 

Maine. 
715 State Mutual Building, 340 

Main Street, Worcester, Mass. 
Sag Harbor, N. Y. 
24 Hermes Street, Athens, Greece. 
West Buxton, Maine. 
57 Orchard Street, Jamaica Plain, 

Mass. 
Rector St. Barnabas, Troy, N. Y. 
1 12 High Street, Hartford, Conn. 
167 



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Bowdoin College, Class of '77. 



C. E. Knight . 
G. T. Little . . 

O. M. Lord . . 

G. H. Marquis 
S. A. Melcher . 

F. A. Mitchell . 

C. W. Morrill . 

C. W. Morse . 

C. L. Nickerson 

R. E. Peary . 

C. A. Perry 
W. Perry . . 
S. R. B. Pingree 
L. H. Reed . . 
J. A. Roberts . 
W. H. Sanborn • 
C. B. Seabury . 

J. W. Sewall . 
A. M. Sherman 
H. H. Smith . 
A. Somes 
H. V. Stackpole 

L. A. Stanwood 
W. Stephenson 

G. L. Thompson 
G. W. Tillson . 

H. D. Wiggin . 



Wiscasset, Maine. 
Bowdoin College Library, Bruns- 
wick, Maine. 
389 Danforth Street, Portland, 

Maine. 
Clear Lake, So. Dak. 
Whitinsville, Mass. 
Agent Manistee & Northeastern 

R. R., Manistee, Mich. 
818 Congress Street, Portland, 

Maine. 
724 Fifth Avenue, New York, 

N. Y. 
Rural Route No. 2, Vernon 

Center, Minn. 
2014 Twelfth Street, N. W., 

Washington, D. C. 
175 State Street, Portland, Maine. 
256^^ Essex Street, Salem, Mass. 
Lewiston, Maine. 
Mexico, Maine. 
Norway, Maine. 
Buena Vista, Va. 
183 Adelphi Street, Brooklyn, 

N. Y. 
Old Town, Maine. 
St. James Rectory, Batavia, N. Y. 
43 Elm Street, New Haven, Conn. 
Aurora, N. Y. 
99 Maine Street, Brunswick, 

Maine. 
Baker, Oklahoma Territory. 
119 State Street, Portland, Maine. 
Brunswick, Maine. 
Municipal Building, Brooklyn, 

N. Y. 
89 State Street, Boston, Mass. 



These are the ivliole contents. 



— Henky VIII. : iv. 2. 



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